Hyster-Yale Group leases tech and testing space at Intersect East

Hyster-Yale Group, a global manufacturer of lift trucks and technology solutions marketed under the Hyster and Yale brands, is the first tenant of Intersect East, the 19-acre innovation hub along 10th Street in Greenville.

Hyster-Yale is leasing 53,400 square feet in the development and will consolidate its global emerging technology division into the project. The move will bring more than 120 jobs to downtown Greenville.

“We welcome Hyster-Yale to the Intersect East location and look forward to continuing to work with them and other industry and corporate partners to make Greenville a top destination for innovation,” said Chancellor Philip Rogers.

The new technology center will work with ECU and others to develop and deploy new materials handling technologies, said Steven LaFevers ’99 ’04, vice president of global emerging technologies for Hyster-Yale. The new tech center will be within the industrial section of Intersect East between 10th and 12th streets.

“We’re in one of three buildings, and we’re right now doing upgrades to one of them to host about 100 people, and before the end of the year, we hope to have many of them there,” LaFevers told WITN Channel 7.

In addition to the technology center, Hyster-Yale operates its division headquarters, warehouse development center and warehouse lift truck manufacturing facility in Greenville, employing more than 1,400 associates locally and 8,300 globally.

ECU and Elliott Sidewalk Communities are jointly developing Intersect East. As ECU’s innovation hub grows, LaFevers said it could give students a chance to gain experience through internships and capstone projects.

“We think that it’s an awesome collaborative environment, with that top talent and that talent source bringing it here, and we have every intention of consuming it,” he told WITN.