Officials say affordable housing is needed to meet the needs of the high-tech industry

You may have heard of California’s Silicon Valley, the world’s tech hub, but the next version of a high-tech hub could be New Hampshire’s Regen Valley, but only if housing issues can be addressed. resolved. Dean Kamen said his company, ARMI, the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute, is at the heart of the industry that produces human organs, cells and tissues for transplant, and it recruits top college graduates. “We need to recruit kids from all over the country with extraordinary passion and technical backgrounds, and they’re leaving all the engineering schools, and we want to make sure we have them here,” Kamen said. “We have the most interesting plans for them. The problem is we better have a place to live.” >> Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go: Apple | Google Play << Kamen spoke at the New England Real Estate Journal Summit and efforts to address economic growth and identify the infrastructure that will be needed to support that growth, particularly affordable housing. According to estimates, the industry could create 7,000 direct jobs in the region. and 37,000 indirect jobs. “There is a need here,” said Daryl Luter, president of Fulcrum Construction. “There is growth in the future that we are trying to be proactive about as best we can, between housing and the infrastructure that supports this incredible industry that ARMI Biofab brings to the city of Manchester.” Mayor Jay Ruais said he wants to make sure the city is ready. new biomanufacturing,” Ruais said. “That’s who we are as a city.”

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Dean Kamen said his company, ARMI, Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute, is at the heart of the industry that produces human organs, cells and tissues for transplants, and he recruits top college graduates.

“We need to recruit kids from all over the country with extraordinary passion and technical training. They’re leaving all the engineering schools and we want to make sure we bring them here,” Kamen said. “We have the most interesting plans for them. The problem is we better have a place to live.”

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Kamen spoke at the New England Real Estate Journal Summit and efforts to address economic growth and identify the infrastructure that will be needed to support that growth, particularly affordable housing.

According to estimates, the industry could create 7,000 direct jobs in the region and 37,000 indirect jobs.

“There’s a need here,” said Daryl Luter, president of Fulcrum Construction. “There is growth in the future that we are trying to be proactive about as best we can, between housing and the infrastructure that supports this incredible industry that ARMI Biofab brings to the city of Manchester.”

As the industry takes off, Mayor Jay Ruais said he wants to make sure the city is ready.

“It’s a real continuation of Manchester’s history. We were at one time a world leader in textile manufacturing, and now we’re going to be a world leader in this new biomanufacturing,” Ruais said. “It’s who we are as a city.”