GASTON COUNTY, N.C. — The new $2.25 million TechWorks of Gaston County is open for business with preliminary plans to create more such training and entrepreneur centers in the area west of Charlotte.
Steve Hannon, a local orthodontist and chairman for the nonprofit that started TechWorks, and about 250 other participants dedicated the new facility in Belmont on Friday with the hint that the founding nonprofit, Gaston Innovation Group Inc., will soon have other facilities in the region.
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The first TechWorks is located at 52A Ervine Street in Belmont, about 12 miles west of Charlotte.
Hannon says TechWorks managers must be careful not to concentrate the new center with just one or two technology areas. “We could fill the entire building with cybersecurity” companies, he says.
Instead, Hannon says the facility will ensure that it will train existing businesses on digital issues, incubate tech companies and serve as a “digital first-aid” center to solve problems with the growth of technology in the region.
Hannon says it’s particularly fitting that TechWorks is in a two-story, 14,000-square-foot former Belmont textile mill that it shares with Rivermen Brewing Co. It symbolizes the region’s shift to the digital age from the industrial era, he says.
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