After years of scouring the region for a new site to house its regional research, design and manufacturing operations, FARO Technologies Inc. has picked the 13-acre West Whiteland development near Route 100 and Business Route 30.

Later this year the East Marlborough employer of 120 people will move into 73,000 of the 90,000-square-foot facility being built for local real estate developer The Walters Co.

“We were looking for a location close to our current base and our workforce,” Brad Lloyd, the company’s director of Pennsylvania manufacturing and Americas service, told the Daily Local News for an article this week. “Chester County’s technology corridor and its skilled workforce attracted us to the Exton area. Our employee base is critical to our operations and our success.”

Those local employees develop and market computer-aided measurement and imaging devices and software for customers like Audi, Boeing, Caterpillar, Daimler AG, Ford, General Electric, Honda, NASA, Siemens, Volkswagen and even Jay Leno, who posted a YouTube video (below) featuring a FARO scanner used to help replicate rare antique auto parts.

The $15 million project was designed by Arcus Design Group of Malvern and is being constructed by The Norwood Co. with Forcine Concrete tilt-up panels.

“We hope this building signals the start of a commercial-industrial building boom,” said Charles Lyddane, a business partner in The Walters Co.

The entire Daily Local News article here.

The Faro arm segment begins at the 8 minute mark.