It is called the Center of Alien Technology.
This Center in the city of Hudson is but one of many facilities run by a multinational company with close ties to the alien life in outer space, running a business by selling and distributing safe technologies to willing customers. By governmental law, they are not allowed to sell their technologies to individuals, and are therefore restricted to giving services to the people willing to receive them.
Part of their company is oriented around transformational technology. The initials of their name, CAT, hadn't been as widespread as they are, if they didn't bear any truth in their meaning. It was not uncommon for people to undergo safe transformations, to modify their bodies in similar fashion, and with similar ease, as people who applied tattoos and piercings onto their skin. Very often, people left the CAT, one tail and two fuzzy ears richer than when they entered.
In Hudson, the CAT's popularity rises.