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A Regional Agricultural Innovation & Community is Currently Under development in Buena vista offering:

  • Community spaces

  • Retail, food, & beverage

  • Housing / Vacation Rentals

  • Business acceleration services & office space

  • Value added product development

  • Small scale manufacturing space

  • Outdoor recreation & tourism incubator

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Now Taking Applications!!

The INNOVATION REPOSITORY

Where Higher Education, Industry, and Innovators Come Together

Higher Education and Industry will form an INNOVATION TEAM to support entrepreneurs with innovation challenges in product development, prototyping, technology issues in the development of products. The projects will require help from engineering, IT, manufacturing, science, Technology, Math and Business.

 

So if You Are an INNOVATOR, College STUDENT, higher Ed FACULTY member or LEADERS FROM INDUSTRY


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INVITATION FOR BIDS

The Advancement Foundation is now accepting sealed bids, in duplicate, for upcoming construction projects.

Sealed bids, in duplicate, for demolition, construction, and renovation work at the Virginia Innovation Accelerator, a project funded by an Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) Area Development Construction program, will be received by The Advancement Foundation at 245 W 21st Street, Buena Vista, VA 24416, until 10:00am, local prevailing time, on November 30, 2023, and then publicly opened and read aloud in the Community Room at the Virginia Innovation Accelerator

Sealed bids, in duplicate, for demolition, construction, renovation, and façade improvement work at the Virginia Innovation Accelerator, a project funded by a Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) Industrial Revitalization Fund program, will be received by The Advancement Foundation at 245 W 21st Street, Buena Vista, VA 24416, until 11:00am, local prevailing time, on November 30, 2023, and then publicly opened and read aloud in the Community Room at the Virginia Innovation Accelerator.

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