Ten occupants in Oconee business incubator

In his career, an Oconee County resident helped  attract sizable manufacturing operations to states such as South Carolina, North Carolina, and Arkansas.  These days Dave Eldridge devotes effort to helping small, start-up businesses.  By name, he called attention this week to some of those start-ups that occupy a large building on Walhalla’s Brown Square.  It’s the Oconee Business Center, a project of the Tri-County Entrepreneurial Development Corporation.  At the annual meeting Tuesday of the Oconee Economic Alliance, Eldridge introduced Dana Todd who, with two other employees, occupies space in the Brown Square building where a French company has started to make a U-S presence.  The company, Vermon, makes ultrasound probes for health care and industry applications.  In all, 10 start-up businesses operate in the Oconee Business Center, often referred to as an incubator.