Francis Tuttle Business Innovation Center

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Being built along I-35 and Covell. Really neat, except for the fact that it is hidden.

Francis Tuttle ready to incubate new businesses » Local News » The Edmond Sun

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Francis Tuttle incubator to be open for business soon | News OK

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It's officially open!

'Francis Tuttle’s Edmond location open for business
James Coburn
The Edmond Sun

EDMOND — Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb boasted about the state’s economic statistics Thursday. Oklahoma enjoys the most rapidly growing manufacturing growth rate in the U.S. with a rate of 6.7 percent, Lamb said at Thursday’s grand opening of the Francis Tuttle Business Innovation Center.

“We’ve led the nation with the lowest state-wide unemployment rate hovering between 4.9 and 6.1 percent. Thank you career tech,” said Lamb, keynote speaker of the event.

Business and community leaders gathered Thursday to celebrate the Francis Tuttle Business Innovation Center, 2824 Progressive Drive. The 38,000-square-foot building is near the northeast corner of Covell Road and Interstate 35.

The center also will accommodate Adult and Career Development courses and workshops with a business innovation center, classrooms and offices for a 12,000-square-foot business incubator.

Oklahoma has led the nation in net job growth during the past two years, Lamb said. The state ranks 10th in the U.S. as a job growth generator and employment leader, he said.

“If you take career tech — if you take Francis Tuttle — if you take business incubation out of the equation, we wouldn’t have one of those rankings,” Lamb told a crowd of more than 100 people'

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