Beaufort, South Carolina

artificial intelligence, knowledge management, and advanced manufacturing and distribution. That’s a major program we have going with our goal for economic development.” According to Bertholf, “Another initiative that’s really gaining traction in the city is called the Beaufort Digital Corridor, a technology-based business incubator. The idea is to bring people in with start-ups in the technological fields and give them nice, trendy office space at reasonable rates, with other people doing like work next to them. It gives them an opportunity to incubate and start their business with a little help. There are professionals, onsite, who provide classes if needed and will meet with potential tenants of the space. They also provide community-based education for coding and other business acumen. It’s modeled after the Charleston Digital Corridor. They worked closely with the city in partnership to start this and Beaufort has now spun that off and is expecting it to live on its own.”