Local and state officials recently celebrated the opening of IBM’s 144,000 square foot global delivery center on Michigan State University’s (MSU) campus.
The delivery center for application service provides innovative application development and support service to modernize older IT systems for state and local government agencies and universities.
IBM renovated the building to fit its needs, but it strategically opened on MSU’s campus to obtain immediate access to the university’s young talent. The first floor of the building remains an MSUFCU branch.
“MSU provides a great pipeline of students that will populate this center,” says Governor Jennifer Granholm. “This is jobs for Michigan residents and it’s keeping our young people here.”
IBM is expected to create at least 1,000 jobs over five years through the center, which is the first of its kind in the U.S. for IBM.
The center has already resulted in new hires. MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon says the collaboration between IBM and MSU will stretch the research corridor further north.
“This really is a synergy with the university research corridor,” she says.
Source: Jan Walbridge, IBM
Ivy Hughes is the managing editor of Capital Gains and can be reached here.
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