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Ground-breaking for UConn Technology Park Set for Wednesday
Officials will gather this week to break ground on the new UConn Technology Park in Storrs.
University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst, state, and corporate leaders are scheduled to celebrate the start of construction for the new Technology Park at UConn with a ground-breaking ceremony on Wednesday.
The first phase of construction is the Innovation Partnership Building (IPB). The 113,000-square-foot Innovation Partnership Building will house cutting-edge laboratories and highly specialized equipment. Teams of world-class academic researchers, private industry scientists, and business entrepreneurs will work collaboratively within the facility to develop innovative new technologies in energy, electronics, materials science, microscopy, additive manufacturing, cybersecurity and other fields.
The ceremony will begin at 1 p.m. Oct. 14 at the IPB construction site behind UConn’s Public Safety Complex and tennis courts on North Hillside Road.
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