Events & Announcements
REDI ANNUAL INVESTORS' MEETING: The Annual Investors' Meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 3rd at 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Click here for details.
BOARD OF DIRECTOR'S MEETING: The REDI Board of Directors Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, July 14th is canceled. The next Board meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. Please call 573.442.8303 or e-mail maholmes@gocolumbiamo.com for further information.
LINEN KING ANNOUNCES MOVE TO COLUMBIA: an Oklahoma-based provider of laundry services to the healthcare industry will be opening a 52,000 square foot facility at 2600 Maquire Boulevard in the LeMone Office and Industrial Park. Linen King will employ more than 200 people for fiscal year 2010 with revenues approaching $20M. Read more.
IBM ANNOUNCES MOVE TO COLUMBIA: On Monday, May 17, 2010 IBM officials came to Columbia and announced 800 new jobs by 2012 for Columbia's new IBM location. REDI sincerely thanks all of our partners who have for the past six months dedicated a lot of time and effort in working with us to win this project location. For access to the press releases, including job application instruction, click here. Read Area Development's editorial here.
BUSINESSWEEK - May 13, 2010 - The University of Missouri is one of the Top 10 CEO Undergraduate Alma Maters across the country. Cheers to David Novak, CEO, Yum! Brands and MU Grad. Click here to see complete list.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: In an effort to better promote Columbia/Boone County, it is time to re-design and incoporate some 2.O communications features on this website. www.columbiaredi.com provides a lot of information and we invite you to review the RFP and submit your proposal before June 4, 2010. Please click here to get started.
Thank you again, to the companies that have submitted proposals to re-design columbiaredi.com! We appreciate your tailored and timely responses and will be updating you very soon!
ANALYTICAL BIO-CHEMISTRY LABORATORIES has selected St. Louis-based ARCO Construction Co. for a $4.2M laboratory renovation and expansion for its chemical division at its original campus in Columbia. The renovations include upgrading exterior finishes, redesigning and modernizing 27,000 sq. ft. of laboratory and office space, and construction of a 10,000 sq.ft. addition, which includes a 2,000 sq. ft. walk-in freezer and a 5,000 sq. ft. sample prep area. Additionally, the project is designed to be more energy efficient. Completion is scheduled for June 2010. published April 2010 - Heartland Real Estate Business. View ABC Labs ad by the Missouri Partnership. Read more...
NEWSY.COM: The brilliant folks at Columbia's own Newsy.com have just released an amazing iPad Application. To download it click here. If you have an iPhone then click here, Newsy's iPhone app is the next best thing. Congratulations on your product launch! Watch the Newsy iPad demo to see what Newsy's iPad app can do!
FORBES - April 2010 - Columbia, Missouri made the Forbes Best Places List! The ranking measured and compared things like cost of doing business, job growth projections, educational attainment, metro sizes and other indicators. Nationally, Columbia ranked eighth best place for business and careers. Click here to see their findings.
CORENET AWARD - April 2010 - As members of KCADC's Animal Health Corridor, earlier this week the Kansas City Area Development Council was awarded the 2010 CoreNet Global Award for Economic Development Leadership. CoreNet is the world's leading association for corporate real estate and workplace professionals, service providers and economic developers.
CLIMB - Collaboration, Leadership and Innovation for Missouri Business. The purpose of CLIMB is to provide an open-source framework and platform for students, faculty and community members of Missouri to present entrepreneurial ideas and form teams to generate new innovative business opportunities in Missouri. Come to the next CLIMB Meeting to learn about opportunities for entrepreneurship from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 28 in Room N103C-Stotler III, Memorial Union.
MERIC, Missouri Economic Research and Information Center just released data showing Boone County was in the top tier of counties for creating new businesses in the State of Missouri in 2009. Click here to see the results.
HIGH SPEED INTERNET - Thank you to Mayor Hindman and the City of Columbia for submitting the Google RFI on behalf of the City of Columbia on Friday, March 26, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. The press conference took place in the Conference Room 1A of the new City Hall edition at 701 East Broadway. Click here to view press release. Please visit comofiber.com for updates.
DAVID KERR RECEPTION: Thank you for attending the Welcome Reception for David Kerr, Director, Department of Economic Development, State of Missouri. The Reception was held on Friday, April 2, 2010 in the Great Room, Donald W. Reynolds Alumni Center from 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Attendees exemplified Columbia/Boone County's unique advantages and collaborative resources for economic development and gardening.
BOONE HOSPITAL was named in the 100 Top National Hospitals ranking by The Thomson Reuters Survey. The survey results are acquired through a quantitative study that identifies the best hospitals, overall, as measured on the 100 Top Hospitals Balanced Scorecard. Click here to read more.
PETSCREEN, LTD., located in the MU Life Science Business Incubator at Monsanto Place is highlighted in the March 2010 issue of Columbia's CEO magazine. Read more... February 18, 2009 REDI was pleased to announce that the UK-based animal health company had chosen Columbia, Missouri for its US headquarters. Read more...
DISCOVERY RIDGE RESEARCH PARK: REDI & MU highlight Discovery Ridge Research Park in Area Development magazine's October/November 2009 issue. Read more...
Regional Life Sciences Summit, March 8-9, 2010: Read how businesses and research are uniting to build a better economy and quality of life in the Midwest's Bio-Innovation Belt. Read more...
Missouri's First Certified Site: Ewing Site was certified by the Missouri Department of Economic Development as Missouri's First Certified Site on May 6, 2009. Read more... Watch the Ewing Business and Industrial Park video released February 1, 2010 view video here.
MIZZOU ADVANTAGE: Economic Gardening & New Media - Growing Our Opportunities: In support of The Mizzou Advantage, on December 4th our community had a prime occasion to come together and set into motion a powerful new ecosystem to grow "new media" economic opportunities. REDI and the Reynolds Journalism Institute continue to identify how we can effectively position Mid-Missouri as a destination location for new media innovation and entrepreneurship. The program on December 4th was well attended at 100 Reynolds Journalism Institute. Please contact Michele at 573.442.8303 or e-mail: maholmes@gocolumbiamo.com for further information. To view the event agenda click here.
REDI is pleased to announce J. Michael Brooks as REDI's President commencing July 15, 2009. Read more...
BUSINESSWEEK - March 27, 2009: Columbia, Missouri ranks in the top fifty cities for start-ups in the U.S.
"We moved our company here last June from San Francisco and the Silicon Valley area. We moved here because we wanted to put our company in the smartest, most economically viable place that we could. Smartest means across the street from the University of Missouri Journalism School. Columbia provided a huge cost savings. This would have cost us four to five times more to have built in the Bay Area." - Jim Spencer, president, online news service Newsy.com Columbia, MO. Read more... "Quality of life and local incentives can lend a competitive advantage to entrepreneurs when they need it most." Read more...
FORBES - March 25, 2009: Columbia, Missouri is ranked as the fifth Best Small Places for Business & Careers. Read more... Forbes - February 2, 2009: Columbia, Missouri ranks as the 8th Best College Sports Town. Read more...
CNBC BEATING THE ODDS: Cities Surviving and Thriving: Columbia, Missouri featuring Mayor Darwin Hindman. February 3, 2009 Broadcast. Watch video....
THE QUAKER OATS plant in Columbia earns OSHA's "Star of Excellence" award. The Columbia Plant has worked over 560 days (694,000 hours) recordable free, and over 910 days (1.2 million hours) without a lost time incident. The award of recognition will be presented during the May 11-13, 2009 Region VII VPPPA Conference in Kansas City, MO.
MU LIFE SCIENCE BUSINESS INCUBATOR ANNOUNCES FIRST TENANT: The University of Missouri Life Science Business Incubator at Monsanto Place opened Jan. 5. The 33,000-square-foot facility has spaces for faculty startups and outside companies. Equinosis has signed on to be one of the first tenants at the new facility. Equinosis manufactures the Lameness Locator, a product that uses sensors and computer software to test horses for lameness. Read more...
REDI JOINS KCADC Kansas City Area Development Council in promoting the further development and commercialization of MU's world class animal health research and resources. Read more...
