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Tech-Skills Training in Synnap Plan
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Business New Haven
11/27/2000
By: BNH
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NEW HAVEN - Training adults and secondary-school students in technology skills is part of the game plan in the bid by Synnap, LLC to create a regional Internet data center and “rapid business development facility” at the site of the former Starter Corp. headquarters on James Street in the Fair Haven section of the Elm City.
Last month, the New Haven Board of Aldermen unanimously approved Synnap's request to issue a $25 million empowerment zone bond to raise money to create the center. With the city acting as a conduit, institutional investors were expected to purchase the bonds, most of which were tax-exempt.
In addition to training, Synnap has committed to create a call center at its national headquarters and to create other work opportunities for more than 360 jobs over a five-year period, the company says. Synnap officials add that jobs will be offered on a preferential basis to residents of New Haven's Empowerment Zone neighborhoods.
Synnap portrays its new 185,000-square-foot facility as “a platform through which New Haven and the region will be put solidly onto the Internet economy map.” The center will help small and middle-market companies make the transition from “bricks-and-mortar” to “clicks-and-mortar” businesses, say Synnap officials, as well as foster technology company start-ups.
Long-term plans are to build a network of 30 such facilities in university-anchored cities throughout the U.S. over the next five years.
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