The building at 2337 Parker Street, Cleveland, Tennessee, used to be a manufacturing facility. Today, as Bradley County Schools’ Partnerships in Industry and Education (PIE) Center, it’s home to a school, vocational training and several businesses.
But to Brittany Cannon, the PIE Center’s director, it’s something else.
“Innovation,” the Bradley County native says. “This is innovation, and innovation can’t be put in a box.”
Bradley County Schools paid just over $2 million for the former American Uniform Co. plant in 2017, Cannon says. She was on a team that helped raise money for a renovation that wound up costing $36 million and utterly transforming the 273,000-square-foot building.