WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government has announced it is providing $60 million in capital funding and $60 million in bridge financing to support Assiniboine College’s new Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture.
The centre is slated to add hundreds of additional training seats in Westman to meet growing demand in the agriculture sector, noted a release.
The Manitoba spending breakdown is as follows:
- $60 million in capital funding, with $40 million going to the Prairie Innovation Centre and $20 million for a new 216-seat child care project within the facility.
- $60 million in approved bridge financing to allow construction to begin immediately.
Assiniboine College has been working to establish the Prairie Innovation Centre as a state-of-the-art learning facility on its North Hill Campus. It will bring together collaborative learning space, applied research labs and multipurpose spaces that will serve both the college community and agriculture industry.
In addition to training Manitobans for the agriculture jobs of the future, project construction is expected to create almost 1,000 jobs.
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