With a $2.2 million gift from the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Family Foundation and other donations, DATC administrators - joined by government officials and business leaders - opened an entrepreneurship center Wednesday on the school's main campus in Kaysville.

The 16,000-square-foot facility will be named the Roy W. and Elizabeth E. Simmons Entrepreneurship Center - in honor of the late Zions Bank President Roy Simmons and his widow, Elizabeth.

The center will house the Davis Business Alliance, a high-tech incubator for new and existing businesses that provides counseling, training, business plan research software databases, continuing education programs, seminars and state-of-the art audio and visual services.

The center also will be home to a small business development office and the Davis Chambers of Commerce, and serve as an office for state, federal and military contract procurement services.

With nearly 45 percent of the Davis County residents leaving the county each day to work, it's imperative that business opportunities are increased and established in Davis County, DATC foundation chairman Gary Smith said in a statement.