PEMBROKE – When James Freeman visits with young people, he sees the unlimited potential of individual creativity.
”We’re all innovators,” the 41-year-old likes to say in varied ways.
Freeman is the founder and president of the Emerging Technology Institute that currently has locations in Red Springs and Pembroke.
In downtown Pembroke, the business is housed in the University of North Carolina at Pembroke’s Thomas Entrepreneurship HUB. There, the office space includes the institute’s roughly 4,000-square-foot X8 Lab.
The tenant space was once the home of Pates Supply, and Freeman said it has always served as a building that helps the community. There has always been a spirit about it, he noted.
“We’re about 70% done,” Freeman said Friday when it comes to the construction and design of the laboratory.
He hopes to have it open by the first of March.