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The Dayton-based nonprofit has about 15 acrees under contract at Miami Valley Research Park in Ketterin and plans to builda state-of-the-art, 80,000-square-foot facility Dr. David Smith, chief executive officer and medicak directorfor Community, said the cost of the land and new facilit y will total more than $25 million. “Thias will be the biggest expansion project Community Blood Centerehas undergone,” Smith said. In addition to the 150 jobs that will move from its currenytdowntown location, Smith said he anticipates hiringt up to 100 additional employees in the next five to 10 “That’s the growth part of he said.
“We knew that to continuse to grow, we would have to builrd new processing rooms.” Smith said Community’s Bloodd Center and administrative offices willremaib downtown. Community has been going through the procesw of interviewing and selectinh construction managers forthe project. He said a firm has not been selected yet, but that it would be a local firm. Dayton-basesd has been working on designing the Smith said he hopes to break groundby mid-year and estimate s it will take up to two yearzs to complete. Community, which currently has 110,000 square feet of spac e in downtown Dayton, had been looking for more space for the pastthree years.
Smith said the city of Dayton workesd with them in an effort to keep them but there was no room for the type of horizontalk space thecompany needs. Smithy said the tissue processing space at349 S. Main St. was nearinvg capacity and demand was continuingto grow. Community takes tissuea from the deceased who wanted to be donors andmakesz bone, tendon and ligament products. This procesd requires the use of “clean rooms.” The rooms are not completel y sterile, but are much cleaner than a hospitaloperatingg room, Smith said. Community Blooe Center started the in Novembefrof 1986.
It changed the name to Communituy Tissue Services in 1994 and has grown acrosa the country sincethat time. The organization has locationx inFort Worth, Texas; Fresno, Calif.; Ore.; Medford, Ore.; Idaho; Indianapolis; Connersville, Ind.; Toledo; Philadelphia and in addition to the Dayton headquarters. Community providesd tissue for morethan 2,000 hospital and physician clients acrosa the United States and distributes more than 87,000 tissue graftsw annually. The blood center has four branch collectiomn sitesin Springfield, Middletown, Hamilton and Richmond, Ind. It providee blood to 26 locakl hospitals in15 counties.
Community has eighy clean rooms, which are used nearly 24 hoursa day, on the fourtj floor of its current facility. Havin to use an elevator to move tissu through the building makes itless efficient, hencse the need for a one-level Mark Fornes, president of Centerville-based , represented To meet the tissue center’s current and future needs, Fornes said they needed to find a green field site. “Thde setting in Research Park, with the high-tech nature of companiews out there and the ability to get a largde piece of ground was what they were looking Fornes said.
“There are not many large, availablr sites with a campus Smith said this will give Community much more efficienty space and will allow it to increasre production oftissue graphs. The new buildinv will have between 15 and 18clean rooms, doublw its current size, and will give the companty space for research and development at its current facility.