March 12, 2019
Media Contact:
Scott L. Peterson, Director of Communications, Office of Public Information, 202-277-9412
ELLICOTT CITY, MD – Howard County Executive Calvin Ball will mark his 100th day in office by signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the Gateway Innovation Center in Columbia. The Center is being launched to serve as a nexus of resources for innovation and small, minority, woman, and veteran-owned business creation and support. The Center will occupy nearly 50,000 square feet in the 920-acre Columbia Gateway Innovation District, located between Washington, DC and Baltimore. The concept is to leverage the density of innovation clusters within the area to foster company creation and small business assistance to grow the regional economy. These industry sectors the Center will focus on include: cybersecurity technologies, healthcare IT and medical technologies, agricultural technologies, and government solutions providers.
WHAT: County Executive Ball and Howard County Economic Development Authority will sign the facility MOU and tour the future incubator space.
WHEN: Wednesday March,13 2019 at 11:00 a.m.
WHERE: 6751 Columbia Gateway, Columbia, MD 21046
WHY: To sign an MOU in order to support and grow new and existing small, minority, woman, and veteran-owned businesses.
WHO:
Calvin Ball, Howard County Executive
Michele Whelley, Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore
Gina Stewart, BWI Business Partnership
Leonardo McClarty, Howard County Chamber of Commerce
Milton Matthews, Columbia Association
Minah Woo, Howard Community College
Rick Kohr, Evergreen Advisors
Fran Trout, Howard County Workforce Development