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Zac Ziegler: On Eugene’s far west side sits a massive building that’s been vacant for more than 15 years. The 1.2 million square foot industrial building opened as a semiconductor manufacturing facility in 1998. The South Korean company SK Hynix spent more than one billion dollars building it, but shut down the factory within 10 years of it being opened, laying off about 1,400 workers. Since then, the building has been bought and sold a handful of times. In 2020 It was bought at auction for $6.3 million, its new owner, Stratacache, an Ohio based digital display manufacturer. The company has spent the year since then renovating the building. Today we hear about that process from Stratacache CEO Chris Riegel, who is in town for an update on the work and stopped by KLCC studios to give us an update on the facility. He starts by telling us more about Stratacache.
Chris Riegel: We focus on what we call advanced digital displays, so a display that you would see in a retail environment, a bank environment, a screen that’s impacting a consumer and helping the customer choose a product, make a suggestion, things such as that, and we’ve been doing that close to 30 years now…