The new cybersecurity facility will provide regional manufacturers and businesses with research and design equipment, specialized lab space, and training facilities and is planned to be housed in a to-be-redeveloped space across the street from the Berkshire Innovation Center (BIC), located at 45 Woodlawn Ave.
An 8,000-square-foot addition is planned for the Berkshire Innovation Center to welcome a new company, Myrias Optics Inc.
The meta-optics producer has a partnership with BIC tenant Electro Magnetic Applications for testing and simulation services. They will be able to work side by side once the expansion is complete.
The Berkshire Innovation Center has come one step closer to having new manufacturing capabilities that could bring dozens of jobs to Pittsfield.
At a Pittsfield Economic Development Authority meeting last Thursday, plans for the 8,000-square-foot expansion to the Berkshire Innovation Center were unveiled. The space is set to begin construction in November and should be complete by early summer, said Michael Coakley, the executive director of the development authority.
The $2-million award, provided through the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, builds on the previously announced $5 million award to the BIC through the Massachusetts TechHubs Program. Together, the investments will support the expansion of the Berkshire Innovation Center through the acquisition of an adjacent facility, creating additional space for advanced manufacturing, workforce training and industry collaboration.
The first purchase of land at Site 9 in the William Stanley Business Park has gone through.
Mill Town Capital has closed on 4.7 acres on the overhauled GE site once described as looking like the face of the moon, as well as some land across the street for a residential building. The purchase price is $200,000.
What we are now working toward represents the next stage of our evolution: a technology hub focused on the advanced manufacturing of advanced optics. The aim is not simply to host advanced optics innovation, but to become a global leader in commercial production — anchoring high-value economic activity in the Berkshires in a way that is realistic, scalable and rooted in the region.
PITTSFIELD — Michael Coakley, business development manager for the City of Pittsfield, gives Massachusetts Clean Energy Center CEO Emily Reichert a tour of the WIlliam Stanley Business Park.
PHOTO BY BEN GARVER THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
Workers from William J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp. got to work on Monday, putting a fleet of heavy equipment to work on the 16.5 acre Site 9 for the concrete cracking and crushing to come.
Workers from William J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp. got to work on Monday, putting a fleet of heavy equipment to work on the 16.5 acre Site 9 for the concrete cracking and crushing to come.
A contractor is finally on board to oversee the $10.8 million renovation of the William Stanley Business Park of the Berkshire’s largest building lot.
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