A three-year search has settled on the Beard Industrial District for the largest piece of the bioindustry push in and near Stanislaus County.
The site near southeast Modesto would accommodate large-scale testing of ideas for turning crop and other waste into new products.
BEAM Circular and its partners have secured the $17 million needed for the first phase, CEO Karen Warner said by email Monday. They do not yet have a timeline for its operation. The funding is from state and county sources…