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| RESEARCH
GROWING IN ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA
As one of the fastest growing areas
in the United States, and as the new
home of the Torrey Pines Institute
for Molecular Studies, the
Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
- Florida, and the Mann
Research Center, LLC, St
Lucie County is emerging as the next
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| Torrey Pines
Institute for Molecular Studies (TPIMS)
The 100,000-square-foot biomedical research
center is scheduled to open in late
2008 or early 2009 and TPIMS’
commitment to this region and to the
research that will be conducted here
could not be stronger. The new facility
will house $9 million in equipment and
is expected to be a significant economic
generator for the area as it will create
nearly 190 new, high-value jobs that
increase the median wage and tax base.
To manage energy usage in the lab,
TPIMS and the facility’s builder
are working to establish it as Port
St. Lucie’s first “green”
building, with the goal of certification
by the U.S. Green Building Council.
For more information, visit www.tpims.org/.
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| Vaccine and
Gene Therapy Institute - Florida (VGTI
Florida) The State of Florida
further solidified its position as a
growing center of life sciences research
with the announcement that VGTI Florida
will expand into a 130,000-square-foot
facility in the Florida Center for Innovation
at Tradition (FCI). VGTI Florida will
be adjacent to the headquarters for
TPIMS. The facility is expected to create
200 high-value jobs over the next 10
years. For more information,
visit www.ohsu.edu/vgti/
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| Mann Research
Center, LLC finalized its purchase
of a 22-acre parcel in the FCI, on which
it intends to build a 400,000-square-foot
life sciences complex. Plans call for
the site, just north of TPIMS and west
of the proposed Martin Memorial Health
Systems’ campus, to one day house
six two- to four-story buildings. The
complex will include 100,000 square
feet of medical office space and 300,000
square feet of research and development
facilities, with a small amount of support
retail. Construction on the first phase
is scheduled to begin in late 2008.
Total development costs are expected
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The Florida
Center for Innovation is a
150-acre research park under development
in the 8,300-acre Tradition master-planned
community in western Port St. Lucie.
Located just west of the intersection
of Interstate 95 and Tradition Parkway,
the park is anchored by new headquarters
for TPIMS and will be home to VGTI Florida,
the Mann Research Center, along with
a new medical campus for Martin Memorial
Health Systems. A Homewood Suites hotel
along with additional hotel, restaurants
and support retail are also planned.
For more information,, visit www.innovationflorida.com.
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| Treasure Coast
Education, Research and Development
Park (Research Park) St. Lucie
County is actively sowing the seeds
of the future by creating a Research
Park in Fort Pierce which is currently
comprised of 356 acres with future additions
bringing the total acreage to over 1,000
acres. In 2005, the St. Lucie Board
of County Commissioners and the University
of Florida collectively created this
agriculturally-and-biotechnologically-focused
Research Park on Florida's east coast.
The initial master plan calls for over
350 developed acres of buildings and
wet labs to house research, development
and educational institutions, businesses
and incubators, with an additional 700
acres for agricultural fields and for
future Research Park expansion.
Anchored by the USDA's 170,000-square-foot
Horticultural Research Laboratory
and the 90,000-square-foot University
of Florida's Institute of Food and
Agricultural Sciences' Research and
Education Center, the Research Park
is home to multi-disciplinary scientists,
researchers and educators. For more
information, visit www.tcerda.org.
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Florida Atlantic
University Center of Excellence
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution/FAU
is one of the world’s leading
oceanographic research organizations
dedicated to exploring the earth’s
oceans, estuaries and coastal regions
for the benefit of mankind. HBOI maintains
a staff of over 200 employees and is
involved in the research and education
in the marine sciences, marine biomedical
sciences, marine mammal conservation,
aquaculture and ocean engineering. For
more information, visit www.hboi.edu
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Smithsonian Marine
Station
Part of the Smithsonian Institution’s
National Museum of Natural History,
this field station studies the ecological
richness of the Indian River Lagoon
and Florida’s east central coast
and draws more than 100 scientists every
year from around the globe. For more
information, visit www.sms.si.edu
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Economic Development Council of
St. Lucie County
1850 S.W. Fountainview Blvd., Ste. 205
Port St. Lucie, FL 34986
(772) 879-4144
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