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Introduce Newport announced today in a press release that INSPIRE Environmental, a rapidly growing Blue Tech firm, will be bringing their talented team of marine scientists and engineers to Introduce Newport this jump.

The firm, which specializes in environmental assessments and seafloor mapping, volition be Innovate Newport's largest tenant, occupying roughly 4,350-square feet of second floor office space at the old Sheffield School.

"To say that we're excited to welcome INSPIRE Environmental to the Innovate Newport community would be an understatement," said Tuni Schartner, Manager of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Innovate Newport in a prepared statment. "Not only are they a home grown high tech success story, only they're also precisely the kind of high-growth industry that we demand to focus on, with their piece of work in offshore wind and renewable free energy systems."

Drew Carey, the CEO of INSPIRE Environmental, said in a prepared statment, "With over 15 young scientists based on Aquidneck Island, nosotros were looking for a space that was a alloy of community date, fiber-optic internet and creative interactions.  We have followed Innovate Newport from the starting time announcement of the projection and hoped that nosotros could participate," Carey said. "We are excited to abound into this space and collaborate with other marine tech firms as well every bit NUWC and URI-GSO.  Beingness a role of the broader Newport and Rhode Island community is very of import to us and this incubator space is a dandy start for the hereafter of loftier quality jobs."

For Carey, Innovate Newport's admission to high speed broadband through the OSHEAN fiber optic network was critical factor in his team'south decision to relocate. "INSPIRE Environmental was founded in 2015 to create a sustainable consulting firm to train a new generation of marine scientists in rapid environmental assessment and visualizing the health of the seafloor.  We grew rapidly with the evolution of offshore wind in Rhode Isle and now take 20 employees working on projects worldwide. Our projects are very data intensive with very large image files supporting seafloor mapping."

In one case complete, Innovate Newport volition feature roughly 33,000 square anxiety of coworking, event, and dedicated function space at the site of the former Sheffield School on Broadway.

The project is a articulation endeavor between the City of Newport; the Newport County Development Council, the non-turn a profit arm of the Newport County Chamber of Commerce; and the Economic Evolution Foundation of Rhode Isle to transform a historic schoolhouse building in the middle of Newport into a hub for the region's growing innovation economy.

In addition to INSPIRE Environmental, other announced tenants include make clean tech recruiting firm Towerhill Associates and the Newport Canton Chamber of Commerce.

"The cut edge work INSPIRE Ecology  is doing in the Bluish Tech sector is a perfect example of the type of manufacture we want to encourage growing in the Greater Newport region." said Newport County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Erin Donovan-Boyle in a prepared statement. "With the global attain of INSPIRE Environmental, they will help put Introduce Newport on the map as an integral place within the Blueish Tech economy. They are they are a tremendous addition to the customs."

"We set out to build a hub for high tech industry with a goal of attracting high quality, forwards thinking companies that are invested in the success of Aquidneck Isle, and that's exactly what nosotros're doing," added Metropolis Manager Joseph Nicholson in a prepared statment. "The squad leading Introduce Newport has executed extremely well in getting this project off the ground, and the add-on of INSPIRE Environmental is a testament to those efforts."

Ryan Belmore is the Publisher of What'sUpNewp.
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