Published June 24, 2008

Liquid Web IT company coming to Mid-Michigan

It's one of the fastest growing high tech companies in Mid-Michigan. Liquid Web has two data centers, packed with internet servers, sending information all over the world.

Matthew Hill, Liquid Web Founder & CEO: "We're experiencing much greater than 60% a year growth and that's with revenue as well as staffing."

And that growth is bringing new opportunity to Mid-Michigan.

Tuesday the company unveiled it's brand new 90-thousand square foot building where it plans to add 600 new jobs over the next four years.

Governor Jennifer Granholm: "We think that Liquid Web move over microsoft, right. Move over bill gates, right here, the start of the next big wave."

David Hollister, Prima Civitas: "This is the next generation of employment. We are clearly becoming an information technology center."

The building is empty now, but by this time next year, it will be renovated, and ready to employ hundreds of workers.

Matthew Hill:"they're high tech, they're advanced positions. They're definitely not like fast food jobs at all. There's a huge opportunity for advancement, both in the company and outside of the company, once people are up to speed."

The company is working with Lansing Community College and Michigan State University to fill those jobs.

Jobs the governor says will help diversify the state's economy in the years to come.