New businesses create new jobs, and lead to economic prosperity. That is the formula favored by officials with Georgia Southern University and the City of Statesboro, who Thursday took a major step to prove their theory correct. The university and city officials announced Thursday that the pair have been awarded a nearly $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) to expand the Georgia Southern City Campus, and create an only-of-its-kind facility in Georgia to help build businesses and create new products from the ground up.
Grant to help city, GSU to open the state's first FabLab


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