In Northern Kentucky.

Regional leaders cut the ribbon on the one Nky center today.

The 47,000 square foot building is home to ten different organizations, including a life sciences lab.

Our Emily Sisk was there for the grand opening and has the latest.

Hundreds of northern Kentuckians gathered in Covington today for the grand opening of this building behind me.

It's called the one Nky center.

The $26 million project is the new home for organizations like Life Psyche, a nonprofit life sciences incubator.

State Senator Chris McDaniel, who backed the project as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said the new development will open doors for northern Kentucky and for the state.

Northern Kentucky, has a lot of cities literally dozens and dozens of cities across three counties.

But to have a unified group that involved the cities coming together, the counties coming together, service agencies, industry.

It's just incredible.

This building represents these wonderful organizations who are doing better work than they've ever done in their history.

Being together under one roof.

It's a symbol of regional cooperation and a new welcome to Northern Kentucky.

Our life science companies are developing breakthrough cancer treatments, pioneering diagnostics and advancing next generation therapies.

This lab provides the space, the tools and the collaboration needed for those innovations to happen.

Life psyche is more than a lab.

It's a launchpad for life sciences industries across the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

We are proving that when Kentucky collaborates, Kentucky delivers.

The short term is there will be a tremendous amount of research that occurs right here in Northern Kentucky.

Cutting edge entry level research that will that will be happening here.

The secondary benefit is obviously there will be jobs from that.

There will be economic investment.

There will be regional growth.

And then the final benefit is as these products come online, that are the cures that are found, the products that are invented, the developments that occur, it will overall improve the the the length and the quality of life for Kentuckians.

So this this is a win from today through decades for now.

The idea for a place like the one in the center had been around since the 80s.

Now that it's complete, leaders said it's up to the region to keep the building inhabited and ensure its success.

In Covington for Kentucky edition.

I'm Emily Sisk.

Thank you Emily.

Next week, we'll bring you more stories from northern Kentucky about some of the organizations inside that center, including the nonprofit life CI.

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