Economic Development Center

The makerspace was thought up with the intentions that students and community members that are retaking classes at the college but are not completing the full course work to obtain degrees in the field and ultimately get stuck in a cycle of retaking classes just for the resources provided on campus.

The EDC provides an alternative to community members that instead of paying for a semester long course they can instead pay for a month’s subscription at the EDC and work on their own businesses. The EDC would then create the hope that community members could generate enough business on a limited income enough to begin to take other classes needed in completing their curriculum goals.

EDC is a practical solution to the cycle that schools can create in students’ lives where more education is needed to make more money but there is not enough money in the area.

The commercial kitchen will include a variety of different tools and appliances. The kitchen will use typical stainless-steel workstations on caster wheels for mobility and flexibility of the space. Additionally, the space will include a cubbies type system that can house each one of the entrepreneurs’ own tools and utensils needed.

The center includes a small green house that can provide spices and herbs used in the cooking that happens in the center’s kitchen. The main demographic of sales for the EDC will be the surrounding community as well as students on campus. The center cannot solve the overall food shortage on campus, but it can begin in healing the gap between the students / faculty and community within the Las Vegas area.