A ribbon and bow adorn the unfinished sign outside the Cleveland Bradley Innovation Center on Friday. The center had its grand opening on the Cleveland State Community College campus Friday.CLEVELAND, Tenn. — A new business incubator devoted to startup companies focused on energy efficiency and the environment opened here Friday.
The Cleveland/Bradley Energy Center is part of the Cleveland/Bradley Business Incubator, both located on the Cleveland State Community College campus.
Incubator board chairman Jeff Morelock turned over the keys to the new building to Cleveland State President Carl Hite.
“We see it at the college as a continuation of our motto ‘Start Something Great,’ and we can continue to build on this and focus our programs and curriculum on issues related to energy and sustainability,” said Allan Gentry, head of the college’s technology department.
In addition to new small businesses, the college has a laboratory in the building linked to energy savings for transportation. The lab already has several hundred gallons of used cooking oil that will be turned into biodiesel fuel for the campus.