![]() ![]() And this 30,000 square feet will be sliced up in five or six areas of five to six to seven, you know, it might slice and dice a little differently depending on who goes in and what you need. It's an incubator, in this case, and microfactory is an incubator for manufacturers, this, this building will be a 30,000 square foot structure built to the specifications that manufacturers need, you know, tall ceilings, large overhead doors, the opportunity maybe to put in a overhead crane of some sort, or what have you. Just like brief space makes a lot of sense. It is at least as far as I know, I've not seen much of it out there. ![]() But, you know, I haven't really heard anything about this kind of a microfactory concept isn't relatively new. You know, I want to talk about this kind of a facility in detail, the one that's proposed here, but, you know, this is really something I think that's kind of new to the industry, you run the brief space down there, that co working space and for office, kind of jobs. And so I think that's why it received the attention it did and got the award. We hope it's an incubator for manufacturers. And that's what this microfactory really is, is a long term economic development engine. And it was clear by the awards that they didn't do a lot of infrastructure stuff, they they really narrowed down projects that were economic development related. And we put one in for infrastructure as well, and the Tallgrass edition. ![]() And many, many of the applications were infrastructure related streets, roads, that kind of thing. In looking at the criteria, it was it was very much economic development driven. And this was the only one in Ellis County that was awarded. ![]() And I think there was one other one that I'm aware of. And so but you never know, when you send them in, there were at least five grants submitted from Ellis County, we submitted a couple a couple other people submitted a couple. You know, we you just never know in these situations, you hope you put forth a good proposal, David Klingon, who is our new Director of Recruitment and retainment put together a great grant proposal explained it very well. Did we? Well, we always expect well, I know you want the you applied and you hope but But I don't think this grant we we really didn't expect to get this great. And I really I kind of want to ask this and not in a bad way. Yeah, I want to back this up a little bit, because I do remember, we talked about it on this segment A little while back, but this is one of those projects that I think it was kind of flying under the radar. But we were fortunate enough to get a, a grant for microfactory, which we've been working on for a while. And so the Department of Revenue wrote some specifications for grants that they would be willing to do that they had, I believe it was 417, or over 400 applications totaling 1,000,800,000 1,800,000,000, for this 100 million. These are funds that came down from the ARPA, federal funds, post COVID infrastructure type bill. I believe that this was $100 million, that the state of Kansas was putting out for grants to people who applied and fit their criteria. And the bass stands for building a stronger economy. It was an exciting week, the Kansas space grants were awarded on Monday, I believe it was. Grow Hays executive director Doug Williams Grow Hays, Executive Director Doug Williams stops by to talk to us about that and more on this episode of the Post Podcast. On this episode of the Post Podcast, Grow Hays executive director Doug Williams shares information about the Hays microfactory project.ĮDITORS NOTE: Transcripts are provided by an automated service and are not verified for accuracy.Ī spark grant from the state of Kansas is going to allow Grow Hays to move forward with their microfactory project. ![]()
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