Our Silicon Millyard has grown into a bustling economic center that is now home to many of Manchester’s most thriving businesses.
INTRODUCING
The SILICON MILLYARD MAP
A tool for HR professionals who not only have to “sell” the job and their organization as a whole, but also the Manchester community.
A way to aid real-estate agents who are encouraging other tech companies to relocate here.
Helping job candidates & internship seekers. All of the companies listed below go a career page, where you see potential job openings without having to travel into Boston!
A TOOL TO SHOWCASE THE RAPID GROWTH OF OUR MILLYARDS
We hope to develop this asset in a way to benefit emerging industry professionals & veterans with job opportunities.
A STORY OF PAST TO PRESENT
THE MILLYARD DATES BACK TO 1831
When our entire city was built from the ground up to become an industrial utopia. In those days, Manchester was the textile capital of the world, and The Millyard, run by the Amoskeag Company, was its manufacturing hub.
THE CITY THAT WOULDN’T DIE
After several years serving as the largest textile manufacturer on Earth, the Amoskeag Company began falling short to the newly-built plants of the industrial South. Unable to compete with the South’s cotton production and cheap labor, the business model of the Amoskeag Millyard began to fail . They started burning coal rather than relying on water power for their machinery, and experienced several mass labor strikes in response to their demands for more hours and smaller wages.
ALL HOPE SEEMED TO BE LOST BY CHRISTMAS EVE 1935
The Amoskeag Company went into bankruptcy and began auctioning off it’s mills. This city, however, was not willing to let the Millyard just fade away. Within ten days, relying solely on city support, Manchester was able to raise $5 million dollars to purchase ownership of Amoskeag’s 6.8 million square feet of manufacturing space.
WITH THE RESILIENCE AND GRIT DEMONSTRATED BY THE PEOPLE OF MANCHESTER, THE CITY’S INDUSTRIAL POTENTIAL LIVED TO SEE ANOTHER DAY
Over the last few decades the mill buildings that once housed the the largest textile industry in the world now house one of the fastest growing technology sector’s on the east coast. Our prosperous tech-ecosystem is now home to over 30 technology firms!
PICTURE THE DYNAMIC WORK ENVIRONMENT OF BOSTON WITH A MUCH MORE REASONABLE COST OF LIVING
This environment is buzzing with vibrant, innovative energy. The neighboring Universities offer the opportunity for many students to walk to their internships at tech firms and medical facilities nearby, earning Manchester the title of “#9 Most Underrated City for Millennials,’’ according to Conde Nast magazine. This area is once again becoming the bustling center of major economic opportunity in the southern New Hampshire region, bringing exponential room for growth to Manchester.
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Pill Pack Amazon:
A full-service online pharmacy that packages your medication and delivers to your door every month.
SNHU:
A private New Hampshire University that offers over 200 online programs.
Sitecore:
A customer experience management company that provides web content management and multichannel marketing automation software.
Newforma:
Provides project email and file management software for architects, engineers, contractors, and owners.
Next Step Bionics & Prosthetics:
Provides premier bionic and prosthetic products for amputees.
Westell Technologies:
Leading provider of high-performance wireless infrastructure solutions.
Oracle Dyn
An internet performance company, serving high-profile clients like Netflix and Twitter and Zappos.
JetBoil:
Revolutionary cooking products that truly enable outdoor enthusiasts to push the limits of their endurance and the boundaries of their experience
Texas Instruments:
Analog & digital semiconductor IC design/manufacturing co., including solutions for embedded/application processing.
Autodesk:
3D design, engineering, and entertainment software and services.
Bluebeam
Empowering people to advance the way our world is built. Their innovative markup and collaboration solutions save teams time and money—and improve the lives of design and construction professionals everywhere.
Geneia:
Analytic solutions and services help simplify the evolution to value-based care and drive collaboration among providers, health plans and employers.
Retrieve
Educational innovation starts with partnerships. At Retrieve Technologies, we partner with innovative organizations, schools and individuals to provide dynamic content and learning experiences.
Thunderhead:
global leader in the customer engagement market;
Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute
(ARMI) slated for the near future
SubItUp,
Providing cloud-based employee scheduling and management software. Although some of the above-mentioned companies are headquartered elsewhere, they still house facilities in the Millyard where high tech work is ongoing.
United Therapeutics:
Uses a biotechnology model to delay the need for transplantable organs or expand the supply.
DEKA:
A research & development corporation centered around fluid management, mobility, power and water.
FIRST:
National robotics competition organization
Akamai:
secures and delivers digital experiences for the world’s largest companies, keeping apps and experiences closer to users — and threats far away.
Meltwater:
An all-in-one media intelligence system that is helping companies make vbetter, more informed decisions based on insights from the outside.
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