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Time for brain gain By GERRY WEISS gerry.weiss@timesnews.com
Sean Fedorko is giving the region reason for optimism after years of Erie wringing its collective hands over the ongoing loss of its brightest young people. Fedorko, 30, likes to refer to his circumstance, and the surge of several other new young entrepre-
Forward together neurs in the area, as brain retain. “The city is finding a way to keep the talent it trained,” said Fedorko, co-founder of Radius CoWork, which opened in May inside
Renaissance Centre and is believed to be Erie’s first co-working center, providing startup business owners with a professional office. Fedorko, a Millcreek Township native, earned degrees in political science and philosophy at Mercyhurst University before leaving Erie for graduate school in Indiana and then a job in Washington, D.C.
He eventually returned here, just like his business partner, Bill Scholz, 29, an Erie native and Gannon University graduate who left town to study at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. “We’re seeing young people staying in Erie and starting companies now that we wouldn’t
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PENN STATE BEHREND’S NEW CENTER OF BRICK, GLASS AND STEEL INSPIRES MODERN APPROACH INSIDE TODAY Erie 2016, in four sections and 44 pages, takes a look at the state of Erie’s economy.
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By JIM MARTIN jim.martin@timesnews.com There’s not much Penn State Behrend can do about some of the biggest economic headwinds facing Erie. A slowing economy in China, jobs lost due to falling energy prices and the challenges that a strong dollar poses to exporters — they all defy easy fixes.
But Ralph Ford, who was recently named chancellor, is convinced that Behrend can play an important role in making Erie a place where companies want to do business. Workers are busy putting the finishing touches on the most visible manifestation of that commitment along Technology Drive in Knowledge Park, where the $16.5 million Advanced Manufacturing and Inno-
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The Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Center at Penn State Behrend. VIEWPOINT: Region must build on strengths. 6B
vation Center is expected to open in March. The 59,000-square-foot building isn’t the school’s first step toward building partnerships with business, but it’s likely the most ambitious. Designed to advance the notion of the so-called open laboratory, the building will house the school’s
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