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Article: Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University Scales Back Westward Expansion Plans.
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- July 26, 2001
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By Bill Schackner, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 26--The slump in high technology coupled with regulatory delays have caused Carnegie Mellon University to scale back plans for a West Coast campus in California's Silicon Valley.
The project, unveiled in January 2000, initially called for spending $125 million or more to erect new buildings at NASA's Ames Research Center over the next decade. But the school now says it will settle, at least for the immediate future, on spending no more than $20 million to renovate three existing naval buildings at the center.
Those buildings became available in recent months ...