Construction will be procured in early 2024 and take place from 2024 through a portion of 2026 , at which time the LIFT Center will be opened and tenants will take occupancy .
The 10,000-square-foot Marshall Green Battery Institute will conduct cutting-edge research and development on batteries for the transportation and energy storage sectors .
Parthian Batteries , a start-up incubated from West Virginia University , will establish a new 13,000-square-foot production facility and headquarters at the LIFT Center to research recycling and reuse of electric vehicle batteries .
The Dickinson Renewables and Edelen Renewables companies will have their workers trained at the center for deployments of solar generation on abandoned coal mines and other key sites .
The 10,000-square-foot East Edge Factory will be an earn-and-learn , registered apprentice and job training center led by Coalfield to train the next generation of solar roofers , battery techs , construction workers , health food production workers and other green sector workers . It will be supported by Growing Resilient Opportunities for the West Virginia Workforce , or GROW Now , a component of ACT Now , and led by Generation West Virginia .
The 17,000-square-foot Charleston Food Manufacturing Hub will include a shared kitchen rental space with wraparound entrepreneurial services , co-packing food production and aggregation , cold storage and docking space to meet growing needs for access to healthy , local foods . The Food Hub will be managed by Refresh Appalachia and supported by Advantage Valley , GROW Now and many other organizations .