More big news for Canton: its innovation district is also getting a business incubator “and a healthy dose of private investment in infrastructure,” Crain’s Cleveland reports. Agile Networks co-founder and chief technology officer Kyle Quillen said his company plans “to invest seven figures” in the district and will privately fund the incubator. Canton announced in May that the city set up an innovation district that overlapped its redevelopment district (see our May 26, 2017 blog post), believed to be the first such combined district in the state. Quillen said Agile, which is located in the district, “will work to get the district the 100GB of internet speed it needs.” Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce vice president of economic development Mike Gill said the district’s improvements will help develop two markets, the “incubator market with people working on IT applications,” and “businesses that need high-speed connectivity that are already established and will benefit.”
Canton’s innovation district also getting privately funded incubator
