Construction of Research and Economic Development Center to Begin this Summer

Construction of the new $30 million Research and Economic Development Center (REDC) at Penn State Erie is expected to begin this summer. When completed in early 2005, the 160,000-square-foot center will strategically support education, research, and technology transfer activities designed to strengthen the economy of northwestern Pennsylvania. "This is a truly tranformative facility, one that is almost twenty years in the making," said Jack Burke, interim provost and dean. "It ranks among the biggest state capital investments in Erie County history, and it will be the largest of our fifty-one campus buildings." For more on this story go to
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