Brookings Innovation Center to be Dedicated

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Story Created: Sep 4, 2009 at 4:54 AM CST

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A ceremony is set for Friday to formally dedicate the Innovation Center in Brookings.

The center is the first of potentially 60 buildings on the 125-acre Innovation Campus, a research park next to South Dakota State University. The center has been operating since last October, but the SDSU Growth Partnership board of directors waited until landscaping was done for a formal dedication.

The Miller Parkway leading to the facility also will be dedicated. It is named for Brookings business executive Bob Miller, who was instrumental in bringing the Innovation Campus to reality.

Innovation Campus CEO Teresa McKnight says nine companies or
business partners are currently housed in the Innovation Center. In April, construction started on a second building, the 30,000-square-foot Seed Technology Laboratory. It is to open next July.

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