Carolina Center for Foreign Investment deploys immigrant investor capital into projects that meet program criteria, including job creation and growth through sustainable LEED certified development opportunities across South Carolina. CCFI only invests in qualifying projects located with Targeted Employment Areas (TEA). These qualifying projects require a lesser capital investment of $500.000.

Current Projects:

Completed Project- Proterra Inc. Transporation Assembly Facility, Greenville, SC

Job Creation - Estimated 1,300 jobs

  • Facility being designed and constructed for Proterra LLC
  • Construction of +/- 240,000 SF Transporation Assembly Facility
  • Facility to be located at Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) in Greenville, SC
  • Proterra will manufacture its battery-powered transit bus at the CU-ICAR facility

US Department of Transporation, December 22, 2010 -- Proterra's Electric Bus Rolls Off Assemly Line Into Transit

Read more about the Prottera new facility announcement in our News

Magazine articles highlighting Proterra Inc. and the signficance of its new facility for the Upstate of South Carolina:.

Proterra videos:   "Senators Turn Out for Debut of New Plugin Buses" - Washington, DC, November 2009

Related article:  300,000 hybrid trucks, buses on road by 2015 - by Andrew Nusca, June 2, 2010

Proterra's Quarterly Newsletter: The EcoRider - Fourth Quarter 2011

 

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