Baylor rolls BRIC into general tire

WACO – The 330,000-sf former General Tire plant is getting its first tenants. The electrical engineering department began moving into the new Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC) facility, the first of several programs that will relocate to the high technology and science park.

More than $45 million in Baylor, state and local government and grant funds were invested into the research park facility at US Hwy. 77 and Orchard Ln.

Baylor and Texas State Technical College will both conduct engineering and science research at the complex.

Next week, Baylor’s Center for Spatial Research will move into labs on the second floor, along with an Innovative Business Accelerator that will assist companies by using their research to develop and market commercial products.

The Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics, and Engineering Research, or CASPER program, will take up space on the first and third floors of the BRIC.

Read more at the Waco Tribune-Herald.