By Dan Spalding
News Now Warsaw
WARSAW — The city of Warsaw’s certified technology park, originally intended to serve the orthopedic industry, will soon have another med tech-related tenant.
Jeremy Skinner, director of community and economic development for the city, who helped establish the park more than a dozen years ago, told News Now Warsaw on Tuesday that an existing orthopedic company will soon move its operations to the park along US 30.
Skinner was limited in what he could discuss, but said the company is not a new startup.
“Hopefully, in the next couple of weeks, we’ll make an announcement. Right now … it will probably be around 100,000 square foot. We’ll know more details in a couple weeks,” Skinner said during an interview for In The Know, the public affairs show you can hear this weekend on Kensington Digital Media Radio stations.
Skinner mentioned the upcoming announcement while discussing his approach as the city works to expand the tech park.
He described the plan as a “pretty significant investment that will complement all of the other investments that we have out at the tech park, so we’re excited.”
He said the company will start out with about 100 employees at the new location and that that could potentially “ramp up” to about 300 within a few years.
Mayor Jeff Grose, who also participated in the radio interview, added, “Incredible — now, the burden (is) where are all these people going to live in the area?”
The pending business announcement is the latest in an eventful few months of economic development news in the county.
Earlier this year, the county voted against opening the door for a data center near Leesburg, and then shortly afterward, Slate Auto announced plans to open an electric vehicle plant in Warsaw that will attract 1,700 workers.
In the last eight years, the tech park has attracted Nextremity Solutions (later sold to Medartis), Banner Medical, and Mentor Media. Medtronic, one of the biggest med-tech companies in the world, contemplated closing its Warsaw facility, but changed course and announced it planned to stay.
According to the state of Indiana, the Certified Technology Park program is used as a tool to support and grow high-technology businesses and promote technology transfer opportunities. The designation also allows for the local recapture of certain state and local tax revenue, which can be invested in the development of the park.
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