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$1 Billion Research and Development Consortium for Reducing America?s Addiction to Oil
November 06, 2006

For Immediate Release

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$1 Billion Research and Development Consortium
for Reducing America’s Addiction to Oil

What is it?  
The Research and Development Consortium is a group of companies working together to advance new infrastructure solutions through the development of a mixed-use research campus as part of a 66 city-block land assemblage.  These solutions will provide a test bed for new technologies to be utilized by growing a residential and business population of 12,000.  

Where is it?
The R&D campus will be located within one mile of downtown Fort Collins CO, a university hamlet with a population of 128,000, named the best place to live by Money Magazine in July of 2006 and ranked number one by the SBA in entrepreneurial activity and innovation.

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Getting Started
The project will begin by marketing a $40 million Joint Venture proposal to start up 5 labs  for alternative energy, engines, innovative transport, automation and robotics as an economic generator to attract research ventures These will grow a 5 million s.f campus of mixed use development in 25 to 50 new buildings that test distributed power generation, new ways of moving people and all kinds of new infrastructure.

An R&D Consortium
According to the US Department of Energy, the transition away from oil will require trillions of dollars dedicated to the development of new technologies in alternative energy sources such as wind, solar and hydrogen and the infrastructure to deliver them. Thus the need for a wide-ranging and innovative research campus with labs devoted to developing and commercializing these new technologies. An R&D Consortium will grow along side the real estate project to commercialize these new technologies.

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Summary

The Research and Development Consortium is a group of companies working together to advance new infrastructure solutions through the development of a mixed-use research campus as part of a 66 city-block land assemblage.  These solutions will provide a test bed for new technologies to be utilized by growing a residential and business population of 12,000.