SEEDs for Growth

Across the street and a short distance from the Davey Tree Expert Co.’s main administration building on North Mantua Street, the longtime Kent company is putting the final touches on its Science, Employee Education and Development (SEED) Campus. The campus, on nearly 200 acres, includes a 70,000-square-foot indoor training facility that features a10,700-square-foot climbing center, classrooms and laboratories for diagnostics and research.

There also is a climate-controlled archival space for the company’s historical records and a reconstructed historic barn for events, according to Davey Tree. The property also includes greenhouses, an arboretum, bogs and non-energized utility lines for training.

It features many glass windows that were designed to help prevent bird strikes.

The SEED Campus will be powered by a 2-acre solar array on the property, and the parking lot has several chargers for electric vehicles.

“It’s been years in the making, the planning and the building,” said Jill Rebuck, senior project manager of corporate communications. She added that Davey Tree purchased the land in 2016.

To continue reading about the SEED Campus, click here. 

To see more photos of the SEED Campus from the Akron Beacon Journal, click here - Davey Tree Expert Company SEED Campus Tour.