> Follow the progress of the Technology Center Construction Project through this website & blog set up by students @ Hickory High School!  http://hickorylindenpointe.wordpress.com/

> March 28, 2011 - Youngstown Business Journal / Regional Chamber Report featuring LindenPointe  YouTube video link

> October 1st Opening for Tech Center Still Expected - May 7th
> LindenPointe Developers Working on "Pitch Book" - April 8th
> "Field Trip" - Students Monitor Tech Center Construction Project - February 27th
> City to Set Up LindenPointe Nonprofit - January 28th
> LindenPointe Project Positions Region for Growth - January 2011
> Non-Profit board eyed to oversee LindenPointe - December 14th
> Incubator Director lays out vision for tech park developers - November 19th
> LindenPointe Innovative Business Campus: Positioned for Success with 2020 Vision
> City eyes stop on 'virtual expressway' - October 5th, 2010
> Seminar set on "green construction" - class to be held October 7th
> Officials ponder incubator structure - August 6th, 2010
> Feds give another $100,000 for tech center - August 4, 2010
> Planning begins now for future business incubator - July 15, 2010
> Green' tech center specs didn't discourage bidders - May 7, 2010
> Hermitage's LindenPointe celebrates growth - April 29, 2010
> LindenPointe project hailed as collaboration - April 29, 2010
> Building their resumes, literally - Students in on tech center construction - April 12, 2010
> Federal official to speak at Tech Center groundbreaking - April 3rd, 2010
> School's target tech center - Seek ways to offer science activities - March 3rd, 2010
> 'Green' tech center on the horizon - February 22nd, 2010
> City gets big grant for tech center! - January 6th, 2010


The Technology Innovation & Development Center (“Tech Center”) Project is an initiative to develop a facility at LindenPointe to assist technology and innovation focused business development. The development of the Tech Center will embrace entrepreneurship, encourage innovation and technology development and support collaboration between private enterprise and regional educational providers. The proposed Tech Center will enhance the emerging semiconductor and technology cluster, as well as the medical/bioscience cluster, in the LindenPointe business campus and the surrounding region.

View pictures of the Tech Center plans:

             

The conceptual design and feasibility analysis for a Tech Center at LindenPointe was completed in 2005 with funding assistance provided through a $25,000 grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development (DCED). The Hermitage Economic Development Commission (HEDC) recommended and the City of Hermitage Board of Commissioners approved the project. The HEDC recommended acceptance of the conceptual design and feasibility analysis and continuing forward with the effort to secure project design and construction funding.

Input was received through extensive involvement of a diverse group of potential project partners including the technology industry, training and workforce development representatives and regional colleges, universities and educational providers. The Tech Center is envisioned as a physical business development and workforce training facility offering technology development and workforce training support for start-up, early development and established companies located at LindenPointe and in the region. The Tech Center facility is being designed to provide business development resources and tools to start-up and established intellectual property design firms, as well as to provide an environment that creates a collaborative workforce and training partnership to meet identified industry needs.
 

CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS OF THE TECH CENTER

July 1st, 2011

April 15th, 2011

March 22nd, 2011

February 8th, 2011

January 13th, 2011

September 23rd, 2010

July 15th, 2010