Aerospace firm Sierra Nevada Corp. has leased 101,000 square feet of additional space within Louisville’s Colorado Technology Center, a move that could allow the company to make 400 new hires over the next year and a half.
The company is leasing space at 2000 Taylor Ave. from Etkin Johnson Real Estate Partners, a Denver-based company that constructed the building last year, according to company spokesperson Kimberly Schwandt on Friday.
“Sierra Nevada Corporation is excited to be a growing team doing innovative and important work,” Schwandt said. “Especially with the upcoming Dream Chaser CRS2 mission with NASA, we are adding staff and workspace to accommodate our expanding company.”
The company currently employs 443 people in its east Boulder County locale, and could nearly double that number over the next 18 months. It employs 3,430 people companywide.
The Sparks, Nev.-based Sierra Nevada Corp.’s Space Systems business designs and builds spacecrafts, rocket motors and spacecraft subsystems for the U.S. government, commercial customers and the international market.
“The new space was needed to give us more production room and give our growing staff more office space,” Schwandt said.
In 2014, Sierra’s local division laid off roughly 90 employees from the Louisville Dream Chaser program after it lost out on a high-profile contract from NASA.
The space agency awarded its $6.8 billion Commercial Crew program awards to Boeing Co. and Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX.
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