The City of Charleston is set to receive $13 million for the launch of the Charleston Learning, Innovation, Food and Technology (LIFT) Center. The new space is an initiative that would transform the Kanawha Manufacturing plant on Charleston’s East End into a facility used to provide research and development on electric batteries for clean vehicles, zero-emissions airplanes and renewable energy storage. It would also house a Coalfield Development job training center and a food hub run by Refresh Appalachia. The City said the federal funding comes by way of the Appalachian Climate Technology Now Coalition of West Virginia, which the city is a member of along with Huntington, Logan, state universities and others. The coalition and city were one of 20 winners in the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s Build Back Better Regional Challenge, a billion-dollar national competition. The City of Huntington also announced a project Friday morning to develop two former industrial sites into manufacturing hubs using roughly $15 million it was awarded through the coalition.