The Tuscarawas Regional Technology Park will be located on 187 acres near University Drive in New Philadelphia. Approximately two-thirds of the site will be developed into 28 three-acre lots with buildings in which tenants employ people with technology skills earning high wages.  The remainder of the site will be left as green space with ponds, wooded areas and walking trails.  It will be functionally integrated with Buckeye Career Center and Kent State University Tuscarawas.  Project and construction costs are expected to total approximately $5 million to be split among federal, state and local resources.    

Our region has seen a gradual ratcheting down of wages as good jobs in manufacturing and mining have disappeared.  The park will be a demonstration project of how a rural area such as ours can effectively rise above this trend and participate in the emerging technology-based economy.  The park will generate the high-quality jobs that will enable our technically trained and qualified young people to remain here at home.  The park will serve as a catalyst: the jobs created there will have a ripple effect on the rest of the Valley with higher property values, superior schools, higher incomes and expanded cultural amenities.  It will generate the community and financial capital to build a community where people “live well and work smart”.