By Amanda Harrison
Sault Ste. Marie will begin work on a new city building May 2. The facility will offer support to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.
Eric Becks is the president of Sault Ste. Marie Advanced Research and Technology Corp or SSMart. He said the city is combing an incubator, a building that offers work space and phone services for new businesses, with a manufacturing set up.
"The idea with this whole thing is kind of like a learning laboratory for entrepreneurs. So if you come in and you've got a great idea but you know not everybody who has a great idea is an engineer for example so we would be able to put engineering faculty and engineering students to work with the client."
Becks said the building will offer most services a client would need to start a business, from patent attorneys to a robotics room.