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Georgia Tech Gets OK For $300M Technology Square Project
The Midtown development will combine high-powered research facilities with private sector tech and should be open by 2018.
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Georgia Tech has been given permission from the state’s board of regents to begin work on a huge mixed-use high-tech expansion that will come to dominate Technology Square in Midtown.
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According to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the $300 million project will be headed up by real estate company Portman Holdings LLC, with the goal of creating facilities for state-of-the-art academic research, big data analytics, and high-performance computing. Tech will own half of the development, while the other half will be available for private interests.
The Chronicle reports that the expansion will take the place of the Crum & Forster building at 4th and Spring streets and rise high above the local skyline at Technology Square.
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Developers plan to have the expansion ready by 2018, the Chronicle says.
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