Local Ecosystem Supports Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses

We all love a good success story. From one-car garage to technology giant — go-getters who rise to the top are the stuff of modern-day legends. But a great idea and a strong work ethic don’t guarantee success. A supportive community ne...

Kansas Is Back in Business: State Sets Record for Private Investment

The State of Kansas is achieving monumental and historic heights.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly announced that the State of Kansas set a record for private investment in 2020 with $2.5 billion. However, that was just the beginning. At a recent Manhattan ribbon c...

Scientist Training Program Advances Research Initiatives, Student Careers

As the federal government completes the construction of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, Kansas, it is prioritizing training for the next generation of scientists to work in the region.

The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspec...

Manhattan City Commission Approves Museum of Art and Light

Manhattan, New York, is known as a center for the visual arts around the world. Will Manhattan, Kansas, soon be seen in a similar light?

If businesspeople Bob and Tracey DeBruyn are successful in their quest to build the Museum of Art and Light in Manhatt...

Pottawatomie County to Expand Wamego Industrial Park

The Pottawatomie County Economic Development Corporation (PCEDC) will soon be going out to bid to extend utilities and build a new road — Shanote Lane — in the current Wamego Industrial Park. These expansions will make the 27 acres own...

Economic Development staff still supporting local business recovery efforts a year into the pandemic

More than a year after Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s stay-at-home order expired, many businesses in the Greater Manhattan region still have a long way to go to return to pre-pandemic levels of operation. That’s why the Greater Manhatta...

Collaboration Brings Corteva Agriscience to Greater Manhattan Region

Regionalism is easy to preach and hard to practice.

The Manhattan, Kansas, area recently saw regionalism at its best with the opening of the new Corteva Agriscience research and development center in Wamego, a city of 5,000 just east of Manhattan.

The Great...

Tyson Supports Animal Disease ID System Developed at Kansas State University

Story provided courtesy of Kansas State University

A national cattle identification system that was first developed at Kansas State University has received a big boost of support from one of the country's largest food companies.

Tyson Fresh&nb...

Kansas State University Expands Human Health Programs to Address Healthcare Worker Shortages

To address state and national shortages of healthcare workers, Kansas State University is launching a series of new healthcare-related academic programs to help students prepare for medical and public health careers.

These programs will allow K-State to di...

HitchPin: A Kansas Tech Company That Aims to Change Global Food Production

A hitch pin is a simple steel rod that connects a tractor to other equipment. With a hitch pin, a farmer can use a tractor to plant, spray, haul — you name it. Without this unassuming device, work would stop. So, how does a hitch pin relate to some of the...

Major Army Post Makes Manhattan Unique University City

There’s one significant difference between Manhattan, Kansas, and other Midwestern college towns with major research universities: Fort Riley. This historic U.S. Army installation had an economic impact in FY 2020 (with multipliers) close to $4 ...

Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory leads Manhattan’s fight against COVID-19

Story by Piper Brandt, Kansas State University

Despite challenges, the team at the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has worked tirelessly since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to offer testing to the Manhattan community and to discover inno...

Bev-Hub Opens New Facility in Manhattan

Manhattan, Kansas, is home to one of the newest co-packing beverage companies in the U.S.

Kansas-based co-packing company Bev-Hub is nearing full operations at their recently purchased Manhattan facility. The Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce and the City...

Small-Town Living Within a Large Community: The Best of Both Worlds

Story and Photos by Cherlyn White-Conklin

“You live where?”

That’s the response I usually get when I tell people I live just outside Wamego, Kansas. (Pronounced wah-ME-go.)

It’s a small town — population less...

Temporary Stay to Permanent Home: Why So Many Who Land Here for a Short While Stay for the Long Haul

The Greater Manhattan, Kansas, region draws people from all over the country and the world to live, study and work. Some residents assume their stay will be a short one, that greener pastures will beckon, that hometowns or new opportunities will lure them...

Aggieville Redevelopment Focuses on Walkable Entertainment District

Manhattan, Kansas, is revitalizing its oldest business district.

The City of Manhattan broke ground in 2020 on a new $14 million, 450-stall parking garage that kicks off a complete revitalization of the Aggieville Business District, a mid-town, m...

Manhattan Renews ED Tax to 2033

Manhattan, Kansas, continues to invest in economic development, maintaining its reputation as a leading community in the Midwest for job creation and community enhancements.

The City of Manhattan first passed an economic development sales tax in 1994 and h...

2020 Manhattan Economic Development Annual Report

CONSENSUS

Through the work in recent years by the Greater Manhattan Project, the City of Manhattan, Region Reimagined, and the Knowledge Based Economic Development (KBED) partnership, consensus has emerged relative to building a more dynamic community and ...

Artistic Appeal: New Initiatives Expand Community Art in Manhattan

When potential residents explore a new community, they often focus their attention on the practicalities of life: housing, cost of living, schools, health care, and job opportunities. However, the leaders of the Greater Manhattan region also recognize the...

Relocating to Manhattan, Kansas? Consider the Advantages of Rural Living

If you’re contemplating a new job opportunity in the Greater Manhattan region, consider how living in a rural Kansas community could be — as one east-coast transplant puts it — “a breath of fresh air” for ...

How Your Company Can Partner with the Biosecurity Research Institute

Established in 2008, the Biosecurity Research Institute (BRI) at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, houses biosafety level-3 (BSL-3) and biosafety level-3 Agriculture (BSL-3Ag) laboratories. The BRI supports all aspects of work with high-conseq...

Keeping Manhattan Safe: Experts Discuss NBAF Safety Protocols

Since the U.S. Department of Homeland Security named Manhattan, Kansas, the site for the construction of the new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in December 2008, those who live in this mid-sized university community have had many questions ...

Kansas State University Improving Global Ag with USAID Feed the Future Innovation Labs

Kansas State University is a hub for research and expertise in agriculture and is dedicated to making strides against hunger worldwide, in an effort to feed nearly 10 billion people by 2050 through its Feed the Future Innovation Labs. 

The U.S. Ag...

Contemplating a Move to Manhattan, Kansas? Five Reasons This Local Encourages You to Take the Plunge

Story and Photos by Kristin Brighton

As someone who was born in Manhattan, Kansas, graduated from Manhattan High, and then spent six years as a college student here before finally graduating (twice!) from Kansas State University, after I finished my school...

The Edge Collaboration District at Kansas State University Connects Industry to World-Class Talent

MANHATTAN, KANSAS — If your company does business in agriculture, biosecurity/biodefense, or animal/public health, consider how establishing a location in the Edge Collaboration District at Kansas State University could boost your future bottom ...

NBAF Scientist Training Program Offers Opportunity for Students in Biological Sciences

If you’re a student scientist who’s interested in furthering your education so you can work with the worst of the worst (pathogens, that is), USDA and Kansas State University are looking for you.

When the USDA National Bio and Agro-Defe...

GMEP Co-Founding Member Wins Three International Excellence in Economic Development Awards

WASHINGTON, DC — Pottawatomie County Economic Development Corporation (PCEDC) was recognized with three awards during the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) Annual Conference, October 12-16, 2020. 

PCEDC facilitates econom...

NBAF to Hire More Than 60 Facility, Animal Care Positions in FY2021; Scientist Jobs to Follow

MANHATTAN, Kan. — If you are interested in a career supporting the mission of the USDA National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) nearing completion in Manhattan, Kansas, it’s time to start pulling your resumé together. &...

Explore Kansas State University Programs for a Career in Biosecurity

What is biosecurity? This field encompasses all aspects of protecting people, plants and animals from diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites and other organisms.

There are lots of job opportunities and many career paths in the field of bios...

Kansas State University Home to Experts in Infectious Disease, Animal Health and Biosecurity

MANHATTAN, KANSAS — Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, is the hub for animal health and biosecurity research in the United States. Many researchers at the university specialize in areas such as infections and zoonotic diseases, livestock and pl...

K-State Disease Researchers Making Strides in the Fight Against COVID-19 and African Swine Fever

Kansas State University researchers at the Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD) are making great strides in the fight against two diseases having significant impact on global health and economies: COVID-19 and African Sw...

Businesses, Organizations Prepare For and Prevent Threats to U.S. Food Supply

“We’re the group that takes ag and biosecurity research out of the laboratory and makes it actionable. We apply it to the real world.”

National Agricultural Biosecurity Center Director Marty Vanier, DVM, and her team collaborate with entities all over the ...

Explore Kansas State University Programs to Launch a Career in Zoonotic Disease Research

The COVID-19 global pandemic has caused many people to become more aware of infectious diseases and the threat they pose to public health. As people are looking to researchers for answers, career fields in infectious disease research are gaining a lot of ...

Why Your Biosecurity Business Should Have a Presence in Manhattan, Kansas

In 2008, after an extensive national search, the Department of Homeland Security announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, or NBAF, would be built in Manhattan, Kansas. This research facility is the only one...

U.S. CattleTrace: Protecting Our Livestock, Protecting Our Food Supply

Cattle move around the country for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes ranchers will introduce new cattle to their herds to improve the herd’s overall genetics. Sometimes cattle are sent to different facilities — ranches, auction markets, ...