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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.

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 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.