Innovation Campus construction ahead of schedule
Construction at Nebraska Innovationpatagonia fleece sale Campus is ahead of schedule, but the research and development park at former State Fair Park is still having a tough time attracting companies.
Innovation Campus Director Dan Duncan said Innovation Commons, which includes the renovated former 4 H Building, is open for business. And two more buildings the Food Innovation Center and Grepatagonia outlet new hampshireenhouse Innovation Center are fast tracked for 2015 ribbon cuttings.
Justpatagonia wetsuits buy one private company has leased space on the 233 acre campus, however, although there have been bites from others, including a Fortune 100 company and a western Nebraska company looking for space to test its products.
Other nibbles have come from start up companies looking for one person offices.
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Still, the companies that are considering leasing space demonstrate the kind of stratification big, small and one man operations officials said would energize Innovation Campus once the fairgrounds was gone and theUniversity of Nebraska Lincoln took over the covetdiscount patagonia wetsuitsed space.
On Friday, UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman said one of the biggest challenges in launching Innovation Campus is showing a level of activity there that would attract other companies.
Ypatagonia mixed guide pants orangeou want people to believe there is actually something there, he told the regents. It s hard to attract people to go out there to be pioneers when they would be isolated.
Moving an entire program from East Campus to Innovation Campus shows UNL s commitment, Perlman said, but has also constituted a significant drain on university resources.
In February, the Board of Regents approved leasing $4.5 million in space an additional 117,000 square feet for the Food Science and Technology Department to increase the university s footprint at Innovation Campus from its original 90,000 square feet.
On Frpatagonia outlet store washington3iday, regents approved $3 million in private donations and cash funds to build more classrooms, student commons areas and greenhouse space in the Food Innovation Center, enlarging its footprint even more.
Putting food sciences programs in proximity with ConAgra, the only private company announced for the research park, will demonstrate activity at Innovation Campus and help market the campus to opatagonia outlet store washingtonthers, Perlman said.
UNL hopes the Maker Space, a business accelerator, and a commitment to environmental sustainability demonstrated through the central renewable energy system, will help draw more tenants.
And once the Foodpatagonia argentina map new mexico Innovation Center opens in July, eight multinational food producers Nestle, Mars, Cargill and Kellogg s among them are in talks to establish an advanced sanitation alliance seeking to improve production techniques using UNL research.
But Perlman said getting everything up to speed and waiting for construpatagonia outlet store washington1ction to finish has required an investment UNL did not prepare for.
We have made considerable investments beyond those that were opatagonia outlet store washington2riginally contemplated, he said.
Landing more tenants will take some of the financial prespatagonia everlong review electronicssure off UNL, but that time may be a yearpatagonia everlong review htc or more away.
For now, the university plans to hire its own business development staff and bring recruitment efforts in house.
The original developer for the project, Nebraska Nova Development LLC, will stay on to oversee construction, but Perlman said UNL believes it would be better served by going in a different direction to familiarize potential tenants with UNL s resources.
If we re goinpatagonia outlet store washington0g to bring people to have a relationship with the university, the university needs to be the one who is driving business development, he said.
Regent Howard Hawks of Omaha said NU should work with the Legislature to create a tax advantage district at Innovation Campus.
The idea of tying tax benefits to companies relocating to work in conjunction with colleges and universities is being explored in New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched the Start Up NY initiative earlier this year.
Cuomo s plan gives 10 years of tax exemptions to companies that move into locations within a mile of college campuses with plans to collaborate with a university.
That kind of tax benefit does not exist in Nebraska, but Perlman said there are plenty of companies interested in shaping UNL s curriculum and developing a pipeline of employees, particularly in the information technology field.
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