Creation of 404 new jobs and more than $28 million in investments by seven manufacturing companies in Northern Kentucky were heralded Thursday by Gov. Steve Beshear and local officials as Gateway Community and Technical College formally opened its $26 million Center for Advanced Manufacturing.
The 108,000 square-foot building, on Gateway’s campus just off Mount Zion Road, was developed with local manufacturers as a state-of-the- art training center for 21st Century manufacturing skills. The new center among the largest in the Kentucky Community and Technical College system is, expected to train up to 10,000 workers by 2015.
“The center is yet another example of the importance the commonwealth places on advanced manufacturing and related fields,” Beshear said in prepared remarks.
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