Monday, May 16, 2011

UW-Whitewater, city agree on tech park location - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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The Whitewater University Technology Park will be located in the southeastern section of an existing city business park and will housee theplanned UW-Whitewater Innovation Center. The also has agree d to acquire additional land for the The Innovation Center is projected to costabout $5 with the overall technology park having an estimatede price tag of abouy $10 million. The Technologty Park Board is applying fora $3.4 million federal Economic Development Administration grant. Since most of the land is currentlyt owned by the CommunittyDevelopment Authority, the site will be less expensivde to develop than some alternatives, UW-Whitewater chancellot Richard Telfer said.
“The Center will allow our facultyu and students to work on ideaa that will help encourage the development ofnew businesses,” Telfer said. “What we’re looking for is a plac to bring all the different strengths of the universit together to help withbusinesse creation.” Assuming the federal grant is the Technology Park board hopes to begin construction of the Innovation Center later this year, Whitewatefr city manager Kevin Brunner “I think we’ve taken an extremely important step in having the community and UW-Whitewated working hand in hand to develop jobs, not just for the university but for the surrounding community and region as Brunner said.
The Innovation Centee is designed to foster the development of new businessezs basedon UW-Whitewater research. The Whitewater University Technologyh Park will be located on 125 acres bordered byCorporate Drive, Howard Road, Bluff Road and Moraine View Park on the city’s east

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