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Fab Lab surges toward construction
Cost cutting preceded approval of final design
GSU Fab Lab Web
This architectural rendering shows 62 and 58 E. Main St. transformed into the Business and Arts Incubator. The glass canopy over the alley has been subtracted for now. - photo by Special to the Herald
With a final design approved and leases inked, construction is expected to begin this month on the Fabrication Lab and Business and Arts Incubator, to be operated by Georgia Southern University and the Averitt Center for the Arts in city-owned buildings near Statesboro City Hall. The business innovation center part of the project will expand on the GSU College of Business Administration's downtown-based outreach. Based on a concept pioneered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Fab Lab will make equipment such as 3-D printers and computer numerical control routers available to students and to entrepreneurs with proposals for new products.
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