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The research park fronting I-25 was to have AVA as its anchor, with other
renewable energy research and manufacturing companies locating there in
the future.
"We're still progressing with the research park," Bohlander said. "There are
a number of interested parties in that project, and it is a priority."
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March 6, 2008 --
FORT COLLINS -- After abruptly canceling a neighborhood meeting to
describe plans for a manufacturing center in Fort Collins, fast-growing AVA
Solar Inc. has decided to locate its plant in Longmont, city and university
sources said Thursday.
The meeting had been scheduled at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the headquarters
of Neenan Co., the contractor on the AVA project. But scores of people who
arrived for the meeting were greeted by a sign on the door announcing the
cancellation.
The company had committed to building on land owned by Colorado State
University at the southwest corner of Prospect Road and Interstate 25, and
had contracted with Neenan to build there.
CSU spokesman Brad Bohlander said the company, now gearing up for
mass production of photovoltaic power cells that use ordinary window glass
as their platform, will locate its production center in Longmont, near the
junction of I-25 and Colorado Highway 119.
"Obviously, this was disappointing for the university," Bohlander told the
Business Report Daily. "I know that people at the city are disappointed, as
well."
AVA executives did not return calls in time for this deadline. A source close
to the project said the company would lease space in an existing building in
Weld County near I-25 in the Longmont area for its manufacturing center.
In announcing the neighborhood meeting, AVA had described a plan to put
as many as 700 people to work in high -paying jobs at the Fort Collins site
during the next two years.
Bohlander said Fort Collins would still take a share of those jobs, with the
company's commitment to retain its headquarters and research and
development center within the city, though not necessarily at the proposed
CSU research site.
The site was formerly owned by the city, but became CSU property last
year during a swap authorized by the city council and the university's
governing board that gave the city a chunk of the foothills campus to add to
its natural areas inventory.
"I know they're planning on keeping their R&D and administrative offices
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