Emporia Imaginarium is moving.
The business, which focuses on STEM education and exploration, will leave the Emporia Main Street Incubator wing and move down Commercial to the former Graves Drugs location. Closing finalized this week.
On KVOE’s Morning Show on Friday, co-owner Melanie Curtis said there is work underway to develop a work timetable. Curtis says there is work ahead on code matters and modernizing the space, but the end result will be a greatly expanded business.
Curtis also says the goal is use part — but not all — of the building.
A moving timetable is getting developed.
Graves Drugs closed in January 2024, following the death of longtime pharmacist Glen Hadaway in June 2023. Imaginarium, meanwhile, was named as the second Emporia Main Street incubator business in 2022. Curtis says the time in Emporia Main Street’s incubator space “was critical for us to get started and get us on our feet.”
On Thursday, Imaginarium was in front of the Lyon County Commission for initial conversations on a Community Development Block Grant application to the Kansas Department of Commerce as a way to offset rehabilitation costs. The official application will be presented for commission approval in the next few weeks.
