Author: Abraham Aboraya
Publisher: Orlando Business Journal
Date: August 1, 2012
After news broke Monday that theUniversity of Central Florida was looking for a design/build firm for a $3.5 million renovation in Research Park, Orlando Business Journal decided to check in with Tom O’Neal, associate vice president of the Office of Research & Commercialization.
UCF actually has the money set aside to fund the project, O’Neal said. The project will add seven labs, but they won’t necessarily be wet labs for bioscience — they’ll be more dry labs for chemistry-based work.
O’Neal said UCF has been planning the projects, and when companies would move out of the space, it has been left empty. Read more here.




