{"id":505,"date":"2010-08-13T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T14:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2010-08-13T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T14:13:12","slug":"texas-city-university-get-grant-for-scitech-incubator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"Texas City, University Get Grant for Sci\/Tech Incubator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A partnership between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.txstate.edu\/\">Texas State University-San Marcos<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.san-marcos.tx.us\/\">city of San Marcos<\/a> has landed a $1.85 million award from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to build a new Science, Technology, and Advanced Research (STAR) building.<\/p>\n<p>The university says the new building will be used as a location for start-up and early-stage businesses, and provide university and STAR tenants access to secure wet labs, clean rooms and office space. Green and bio-technology companies will be a major focus, and backers hope that San Marcos&#8217; location between Austin and San Antonio will work to attract corporate research interest from those cities&#8217; technology communities.<\/p>\n<p>The STAR facilities plan to incorporate expertise from the McCoy College of Business Administration and the Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization program at Texas State. Of the project&#8217;s overall $6 million cost, Texas State has already committed $5 million. The university&#8217;s share of the grant will go directly toward construction of wet lab and clean room facilities. The city&#8217;s share will finance infrastructure improvements to the 40-acre site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A partnership between Texas State University-San Marcos and the city of San Marcos has landed a $1.85 million award from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to build a new Science, Technology, and Advanced Research (STAR) building. The university says the new building will be used as a location for start-up and early-stage businesses, and provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-ventures","tag-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}