Tech park to welcome tenants in summer '08
Shayna Singer
Issue date: 3/13/08 Section: News
The South Jersey Technology Park, an auxiliary entity of Rowan University, is scheduled to open sometime between June and August of 2008.
Rowan University's College of Engineering and College of Business will be the first tenants of the Tech Park.
The Technology Park was designed to bring established technologically based companies into the area, companies who either already had a relationship with the University or those who were willing to build one.
These companies would, according to CEO Tom Drury, "engage the university to assist them," in everything from research to public relations.
They would open up internship possibilities for college students, but would also benefit from the new and innovative ideas students would bring with them.
The Samuel H. Jones Innovation Center is the first building in this new development in the Glassboro community.
The College of Engineering will take up about 80 percent of the first floor. The other 20 percent of the first floor will be used by the Rohrer College of Business. That section of the building will become the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a business incubator for young companies which need help getting started.
Neither college will be holding classes in the building, but there will be laboratories set up for the engineering students. The College of Business will be moving its offices from Memorial Hall to the Innovation Center.
The university's lease began in January of 2008 and they are now in the process of "fitting out," or building to meet their specific needs, the empty building.
At the moment only the core and shell of the Samuel H. Jones building is completed. This construction method was used so that each company that took space in the building could design their space to be a custom fit.
Drury stated that the Tech Park is "actively seeking tenants" for the second floor of the Innovation Center.
They are looking for well-established companies who will help build the community. According to Drury, "That is the whole reason for the Tech Park."
Rowan University's College of Engineering and College of Business will be the first tenants of the Tech Park.
The Technology Park was designed to bring established technologically based companies into the area, companies who either already had a relationship with the University or those who were willing to build one.
These companies would, according to CEO Tom Drury, "engage the university to assist them," in everything from research to public relations.
They would open up internship possibilities for college students, but would also benefit from the new and innovative ideas students would bring with them.
The Samuel H. Jones Innovation Center is the first building in this new development in the Glassboro community.
The College of Engineering will take up about 80 percent of the first floor. The other 20 percent of the first floor will be used by the Rohrer College of Business. That section of the building will become the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a business incubator for young companies which need help getting started.
Neither college will be holding classes in the building, but there will be laboratories set up for the engineering students. The College of Business will be moving its offices from Memorial Hall to the Innovation Center.
The university's lease began in January of 2008 and they are now in the process of "fitting out," or building to meet their specific needs, the empty building.
At the moment only the core and shell of the Samuel H. Jones building is completed. This construction method was used so that each company that took space in the building could design their space to be a custom fit.
Drury stated that the Tech Park is "actively seeking tenants" for the second floor of the Innovation Center.
They are looking for well-established companies who will help build the community. According to Drury, "That is the whole reason for the Tech Park."
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