On April 18, Governor Laura Kelly and several other partners announced that Scorpion Biological Services, a biological manufacturing company, will be expanding into Pottawatomie County. They will have operations from drug discovery to manufacturing and plan to construct a new 500,000 square foot manufacturing facility that could ultimately employ up to 500 people making a $75,000 average salary.
In this week's episode, we invited Rebecca Robinson, Chief Corporate Engagement and Economic Development Officer at K-State Innovation Partners and Daryn Soldan, Director of Economic Development at the Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce to share some of the behind the scene details on the process of obtaining this project for our region.
