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Emory West
Emory has developed a conceptual master plan for the 42-acre Emory West site that will direct the development of the site during the next 20 years. The plan will evolve as individual buildings are designed. In August 1998, Emory University purchased the 42-acre Georgia Mental Health Institute property on Briarcliff Road from the state of Georgia. Emory intends to use the property for a variety of academic, education, research and scientific activities in keeping with its own mission and with the state's original commitment that the property be used for services to benefit Georgians. The master plan for the site creates a campus-like setting with buildings positioned around a large, open space designed to allow a vista westward to the city of Atlanta. The proposed buildings progress downhill with the natural rolling topography of the site; several are designed with below-grade parking, and a proposed two-story parking deck is tucked into a slope on the north side of the site. The timetable to demolish the current buildings and begin construction on the first permanent biotechnology development center building is contingent upon identifying funding for the development of the property. Additionally, the location and design for the initial buildings have not been determined.
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Emory West Biotechnology Development Center
These interim facilities at the Biotechnology Development Center at Emory West will house five or six small-scale, start-up companies engaged in advanced research and whose mission is complementary to Emory University and Georgia Tech. They will open sometime in 2000. Biotechnology Development Center One of the cornerstones of Emory's planning for the Emory West property, and an aspect of special interest to the state, is the creation of a multidisciplinary biotechnology development center where promising medical and related technologies can be "incubated" and nurtured. This concept was developed in partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology and is supported by the Georgia Research Alliance, a nonprofit, public-private partnership of research universities, business and state government that seeks to develop the technology industry in Georgia. To get the Biotechnology Development Center underway, the Georgia Research Alliance has provided investment funding for Emory and Georgia Tech to purchase seven modular units at a cost of $1.6 million. The units will be clustered together on the north side of the property, behind the Candler Mansion. These modular units each contain 1,100 square feet of space and are roughly 24 feet wide by 46 feet long. These interim facilities at Emory West's biotechnology development center will house five or six small-scale, start-up companies engaged in advanced research and whose mission is complementary to Emory University and Georgia Tech. These four- to six-employee companies will be working to commercialize their discoveries, and as the companies reach a level of maturity that warrants having their own facilities, they will move off campus. No companies will remain permanently at the biotech development center.
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