The company, headquartered in Reston, Va., was recently awarded a $9,150 grant by The Monroe Area Community Improvement Corporation to make interior upgrades to the 600-square-foot suite.
“If we did not get that grant, we would not be able to move into that (building),” said Tracy Mitchell, Midwest region manager of the CEC office in Mason.
The CIC recently awarded more than $30,000 in grant funds to local businesses through its Business Exterior Improvement Matching Grant and Downtown Development Grant Programs.
The grant money will be used to pay for new carpet, painting, adding interior walls, data voice lines, and updating bathrooms to help them meet American with Disabilities Act requirements, Mitchell said.
“It’s basically a complete remodel inside. I would think by May 1 or so, we would be in,” he said.
Monroe Councilwomen Suzi Rubin, president of the CIC, said the grant was awarded to the CEC to help improve the economic climate in Monroe.
“If they were going to stay in Mason of course that wouldn’t apply, but we’re improving a property that’s in Monroe. Even if they moved, it would still be a better property in Monroe. It needed a lot of work, that space,” she said.
Mitchell said one of the reasons the company chose to locate in Monroe is because it is trying to do more marketing in Dayton.
“One thing that we’re trying to do is have more of a presence in the Dayton area. So that’s where Monroe is kind of good to get us half way between Cincinnati and Dayton,” he said.
“We like to say we’re the best little engineering company nobody’s ever heard of.”
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