UNL Chancellor, Harvey Perlman, spoke at the LIBA luncheon yesterday and updated the attendees on the progress of the Nebraska Innovation Campus. Innovation Campus is a proposed long-term redevelopment of State Fair Park into a private/public research community adjacent to UNL's city campus. Perlman believes a research university is key to progress and competitiveness in the 21st century but acknowledges that this can only be done with public-private partnerships. Consultants developing a master plan and business plan have indicated the Innovation Campus will be a mixed-use development of approximately 1.8 million gross square feet which will include various research office buildings, retail space, 250 multi-family housing units and public space and result in the creation of approximately 2,800 jobs.
I am intrigued by the potential opportunities Innovation Campus can bring to Lincoln and the State of Nebraska and hope Perlman's visions can become a reality.
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