LEESBURG - The UCF Business Incubator-Leesburg will host an open house on Tuesday, Feb. 23 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the program’s headquarters facility at 600 Market St. in Leesburg.
Incubator site manager James Spencer said six client companies have already joined the Business Incubation Program in Leesburg and the facility currently can accommodate seven client companies.
The UCF Business Incubator-Leesburg houses the UCF Business Incubation Program as well as UCF’s Small Business Development Center. It is a joint project of the University of Central Florida in Orlando, the City of Leesburg and Lake County, Spencer said.
The Leesburg Business Incubator provides technical assistance and office space to help promising new enterprises accelerate their growth, Spencer explained.
“Our job is to help grow local businesses to create more local employment and improve the local economy,” Spencer said.
The University of Central Florida Incubation Program, which opened 10 years ago, ranks as one of the most successful incubation programs in the U.S.
For more information about this release, please contact:
James Spencer, Site Manager, UCF Business Incubator-Leesburg, 352-315-1846, jspencer@mail.ucf.edu; Gordon Hogan, Director of Operations, UCF Business Incubation Program, 407-882-1157; ghogan@mail.ucf.edu
About the UCF Incubation Program:
Since its founding in 1999, the UCF Business Incubation Program has helped more than 130 emerging companies (including nearly 80 current clients) create over $500 million in annual revenue and more than 1600 new jobs with an average salary of $59,000. With seven facilities across the Greater Orlando community, the Incubation Program is a collaboration in economic development between the University of Central Florida, Orange County, the City of Orlando, Seminole County, the City of Winter Springs, The City of Sanford, Lake County, the City of Leesburg, and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council. For more information, please visit http://www.incubator.ucf.edu/
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