This project will finance the acquisition of a manufacturing facility in Thomaston, GA, a warehouse in Chipley, FL and provide working capital. The acquisition and retrofitting of a former coal fired power plant which had closed 10 years ago. The AVAPCO project consists of the acquisition, expansion and leasing of an existing biomass research, development, and demonstration facility located in Thomaston, Georgia. The $21 million science complex LaGrange College comprises two buildings: the newly constructed, $17 million, 43,000-sq. ft. Ida Callaway Hudson Lab Sciences Building and, across the street, the 45-year-old, 27,000-sq. ft. Cason J. Trident Seafoods established an East Coast fish processing and distribution facility, which was otherwise cost prohibitive without the NMTC financing.