HOLYOKE – The wait might drag into August to learn which of the two competing sites has been chosen to get a $130 million high performance computing center, an official said.
n a keynote address today at the Boston College Chief Executives’ Club of Boston, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) Chairman and CEO John Chambers will share his perspectives on how collaboration can unlock productivity and innovation gains in New England and across the globe.
The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative is issuing this Request for Proposals (No. 2010-JAII-01) to solicit responses from firms and organizations capable of combining urban revitalization and innovation-based economic development strategies for the purpose of shaping and guiding public and private sector investments during a five-ten year period. MTC intends to select a firm to develop strategies (i) to support the establishment of an Innovation District within the City of Holyoke and (ii) to leverage the presence of that Innovation District for the explicit purpose of catalyzing business formation and job creation in Holyoke and throughout the Pioneer Valley.
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Massachusetts is well-positioned to win a disproportionate share of federal funds, which are increasingly being awarded by the Obama administration through competitions emphasizing innovation and collaboration, state Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki said yesterday.
HOLYOKE – A decision will be announced in July about which of the two competing sites has been selected to house a high performance computing center, an official said on Tuesday.
“I don’t have a hard date or even an exact time frame” within July, said Tom Testa, assistant vice president with Boston University.
