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Article: PURDUE RESEARCH PARK BREAKS GROUND, ANNOUNCES GIFT FOR NEW TECH CENTER
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 7, 2008
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Purdue University issued the following news release:
The Purdue Research Park will break ground at 2:30 p.m. Monday (April 7) on a nearly 13-acre expansion for which the wife of a Purdue University alumnus has donated $3 million to help fund a new technology center.
The deferred gift from Heddy Kurz of Louisville will be applied toward construction of Purdue Research Park's $14.5 million Purdue Technology Center II building, which will be located at 1280 Win Hentschel Blvd. The center will support about 275 jobs and 26 companies. The average annual wage of employees working in the park is $52,000.
Kurz's gift is in honor of her late husband, Herman, who received a degree in electrical ...