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IYRS opens at the Franklin Street Marine corridor

03/30/09
Saturday, March 28. The latest in a development of commercial facilities on Franklin Street in Bristol isn’t just another new building. It’s the New IYRS Marine Systems Training Facility. At the IYRS Newport campus the focus is wooden boat building but at this new Bristol location it is all about the systems. Training is hands on in electrical, plumbing, mechanical and gas and diesel engine repair.

The International Yacht Restoration School (IYRS) teaches the skills, history, art and science of building, restoring and maintaining boats and their systems. IYRS offers full-time certificate programs as well as continuing education courses for boatyard employees and serious enthusiasts.

The opening “represents the culmination of an idea to bring the marine trades and related educational programs together”, according to Andy Tyska, Developer of the Franklin Street Marine Corridor. “In fact, the development itself is a unique effort to provide an incubator for marine businesses as well as flexible space for marine trades expansion in Bristol and the State.”

Over the past few years, the area from Buttonwood Street to Metacom Avenue in Bristol has come together as a unique place for marine trades related businesses to operate. Starting with storage and repair facilities for Mr. Tyska’s own Bristol Marine full service boat yard, the “industrial park” grew over ten years to include new buildings that have housed twenty businesses. The site is a microcosm of the marine industry and just a half mile from waterfront access at Bristol Marine.

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