The Southern Illinoisan reports: Research Park Groundbreaking Ceremony: "Dignitaries and Southern Illinois University officials turned a little dirt Friday afternoon to start construction on the second major building to go up at the Southern Illinois Research Park since its inception in 1999.
Legislators, including U.S. Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Belleville, and State Sen. Dave Luechtefeld, R-Okawville, and university leaders, including Chancellor Walter Wendler and board of trustees Chairman Glenn Poshard broke ground on what will be a
[The $2.8 million, one-story, 20,000-square-foot multi-tenant facility in the park on Pleasant Hill Road] . . . will house graduates of the Small Business Incubator program, located in the Dunn-Richmond Economic Development Center already on park grounds. The building can house up to 15 firms and will take a little more than a year to complete.
Ray Lenzi, SIU associate vice chancellor for economic and regional development and executive director of the research park, said the facilities in the park will inevitably create the technological jobs people will want.
'Most of the things we now take for granted, including cars, planes, cell phones, computers and the Internet, did not exist in 1900,' Lenzi said. 'Similarly, the technology, jobs, work force and businesses for this century, for our children and their children, must and will be created by us if America is to maintain its competitive advantage and prosperity.'
Lenzi said SIU brings world class arts, athletics and academics to Southern Illinois. The research park component will bring the technological jobs in the region, making sure it is ready for the next phase in the American work force"
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