The corner building at Seventh Street and Fifth Avenue in the city of 新肯辛顿 will become a business incubator for 免费mg不朽情缘试玩新肯辛顿分校 and local community innovation.
宾夕法尼亚州新肯辛顿. — 免费mg不朽情缘试玩新肯辛顿分校 凯文·斯奈德校长 previewed the new Entrepreneurial Center Feb. 10 at a meeting of local business leaders and city and county officials in the new Knead 社区 Café in downtown 新肯辛顿.
The center is located in the former Professional Building at the corner of Seventh Street and Fifth Avenue in the city. 学校与许多组织建立了合作关系, such as the city of 新肯辛顿 and the Beauty Shoppe, and primarily with the Westmoreland County Industrial Development Corporation, 为当地社区带来活力和活力. 装修在今年晚些时候完成, the center will be both a spark for small businesses and individuals to operate and an entrepreneur center designed to encourage innovation and small business development across the Alle-Kiski Valley.
“这是一个实验, as most entrepreneur centers go where there are already amenities and support,斯奈德说. “We hope that other campuses in the Penn State system can replicate it and breathe some new life into cities and towns.”
被称为“角落”,” the Entrepreneur Center will anchor one end of the “Corridor of Innovation” that runs along a five-block stretch of Fifth Avenue, to Westmoreland County 社区 College-新肯辛顿, 另一个锚. The corner to college section is a step in revitalizing downtown 新肯辛顿.
“‘角落’不仅仅是一栋建筑，”斯奈德说. “这是创新的火花.”
这个项目的启动资金是50美元,由免费mg不朽情缘试玩资助, an initiative that focuses on leveraging Penn State’s research, knowledge and entrepreneurial spirit to bring to market needed ideas, 产品及服务. 前提是要让在校学生参与进来, 教职员工, 以及社区成员的创意, 然后把这些想法变成有前途的新公司.
“Penn State is developing a kind of entrepreneurial network across the state,斯奈德说. “这个中心将成为其中的一部分.”
Sustainability is achieved through memberships by existing companies needing co-working space. 马修·西科尼, 美容院的首席执行官, 企业家中心的模式是什么, helped revitalize the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. He noted that 80 percent of the Beauty Shoppe’s space is funded by memberships.
免费mg不朽情缘试玩新肯辛顿分校 凯文·斯奈德校长 previewed the new Entrepreneurial Center Feb. 10 at a meeting of local business leaders and city and county officials in the new Knead 社区 Café in downtown 新肯辛顿.
More than 60 people turned out for the latest news about 免费mg不朽情缘试玩新肯辛顿分校's Entrepreneur Center.
免费mg不朽情缘试玩新肯辛顿分校 凯文·斯奈德校长 explains Penn State's re-emergence in the city of 新肯辛顿 with the Entrepreneur Center on Fifth Avenue. 根据斯奈德的说法，“在某种程度上，它正在回家.” The first 新肯辛顿 campus in 1958 was in a former high school building located on Fourth Avenue in the city. The need to expand necessitated Penn State's move to the present location five miles away in Upper Burrell.
Kevin Bode developed the Knead 社区 Cafe based on a model created by Jon Bon Jovi in Red Bank, 新泽西. 这个概念让博德咖啡馆的顾客, 将于2月开幕, to pay what they can afford for a meal or volunteer in the cafe.
杰森Rigone, director of the Westmoreland County Industrial Development Corporation, discusses the purchase of the building at the corner of 7th Street and 5th Avenue in 新肯辛顿. The building will serve as 免费mg不朽情缘试玩新肯辛顿分校's Entrepreneur Center.
马修·西科尼, 美容院的首席执行官, helped revitalize the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The Beauty Shoppe is partnering with the campus to get the Entrepreneur Center up and running and handle operations of the space. 在他们的模式下, the expectation is that revenue generated by the space will help sustain the facility and provide resources to the entrepreneurial components.
汤姆Guzzo, 新肯辛顿市长, is working with 凯文·斯奈德校长 to bring the business incubator to fruition and incorporate it into the city’s plan to become a “smart” city.
Kevin Bode points out some interesting features about his Knead 社区 Cafe, 尤其是回收材料的使用. The café opens in late February and is part of the effort to bring innovative ideas to downtown 新肯辛顿.
The Knead 社区 Cafe's decor features re-purposed materials, 比如两扇旧门，它们是柜台面的一部分.
The Knead 社区 Cafe is a part of the former Sons of Italy building on 5th Avenue in 新肯辛顿. 咖啡馆的入口位于巴恩斯街.
凯文·斯奈德校长
杰森Rigone, director, Westmoreland County Industrial Development Corporation
新肯辛顿市市长汤姆Guzzo
