The Catawba County Community College will be purchasing the old Ryan's restaurant on US 70. The site is within close proximity of the college campus. The building will provide about 10,000 square feet of additional facilities for the college. The college has an all-time high enrollment and needs the additional space.
This acquisition by the CVCC Center for Emerging Manufacturing Solutions will help to create new and protect existing jobs in the Catawba Valley. It will attract more manufacturers to the area. The Catawba County Board of Commissioners approved the spending of approximately nine hundred fifty thousand dollars from the School Construction fund and CVCC will pay the balance of two hundred fifty thousand dollars to purchase the property for $1.2 million.
According to the Catawba Valley Community College:
"The Center for Emerging Manufacturing Solutions will focus on direct service delivery to manufacturers throughout the region in an effort to assist the changing furniture, textiles, metals, fiber optics, and technology sectors in creating successful business models for future productivity. The center will be the "core" for research and development in the region and provide fast track prototyping, testing, marketing and product development to all stakeholders in the changing economies of North Carolina."
The growth of the college will provide more opportunities for the students of the college as well as businesses in the Catawba Valley.
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