It’s time to ramp up the NBAF marketing for Junction City and Geary County.

That’s the opinion of city – county planning and zoning director David Yearout. He told a city – county – USD 475 audience at the recent Leaders Retreat he saw how aggressively Manhattan and Riley County are marketing business parks, for example.” And it became very aggressively to me we’ve got known property available in the community but beyond noting it on a map we’ve not done much to really start marketing that property.”

Yearout added he thinks there needs to be more aggressive marketing. “Perhaps visioning a little bit about what could be going on there, renderings of what it might look like, concepts of what buildings there would be, and start moving forward to try attract some corporate offices or small laboratories to support what’s going on with NBAF.

The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility will be located in Manhattan on the north side of the K-State campus, but there could be opportunities for numerous related businesses in the region.