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1994
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Trustees: Research Park Leases, etc.
RELOCATION OF EDISON WELDING, SILLIKER TO PERMIT EXPANSION
COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees
Wednesday (8/31) authorized administrators to negotiate and enter
into long-term leases on West Campus with Edison Welding
Institute and Silliker Laboratories of Ohio Inc. Trustees also
acted on several other property, real estate and capital project
matters.
The leases would enable Edison and Silliker to move from
facilities on Kinnear Road to new, larger buildings. Ohio State
would lease about 10 acres of land on Lane Avenue west of Carmack
for Edison and a smaller tract on Kinnear west of the Museum of
Biological Diversity for Silliker.
"These two actions will strengthen the university research
park in areas that have a proven track record for enhancing
student research participation at both the undergraduate and
graduate levels," said Edward F. Hayes, vice president for
research at Ohio State.
Hayes added that such research experiences permit the
university to attract and graduate outstanding students in
technology areas that are of economic importance to the state and
the nation.
Edison, the nation's largest industrial consortium dedicated
to material joining technology, is seeking to greatly expand its
operations to meet increasing demands for joining technology
research and development.
According to Ohio State's Office of Research, materials
joining contributes approximately $50 billion annually to the
U.S. economy and is a major determinant of manufacturing
competitiveness. Edison Welding Institute serves 300 member
companies at more than 2,700 plants across Ohio and the nation.
In a recent two-year period, members quantified more than $100
million in benefits from Edison's assistance.
The institute has proposed constructing a 129,000 square-
foot Edison Joining Technology Center that will more than double
current available space and enable the institute to double
revenues and technical and training capacity in the first five
years.
Seen by some of Ohio's leading manufacturers as a critical
addition to revitalizing Ohio manufacturing, the Edison expansion
project has been endorsed by Columbus Mayor Greg Lashutka and
U.S. Rep. Deborah Pryce, and has won the support of the Columbus
Area Chamber of Commerce and the Ohio Department of Development.
Over the past 10 years, Edison Welding has provided Ohio
State more than $5 million in cooperative research and project
funding, along with teaching, research and employment
opportunities for welding engineering students.
Silliker, a private, for-profit food testing laboratory,
supports instructional and research programs in the Department of
Food Science and Technology and the Department of Microbiology.
Officials in the College of Food, Agricultural, and
Environmental Sciences said Silliker provides employment for
several graduate and undergraduate students and provides students
with laboratory space, materials and equipment unavailable
elsewhere. Ed Richter, director of Silliker labs, teaches
courses in advanced food microbiology as an adjunct professor in
the Department of Food Science and Technology.
The leases would be for no more than 40 years, including
renewal periods. Titles to the facilities and improvements would
pass to the university at the end of the leases and any renewal
periods. Under terms of a lease, Ohio State would approve the
site and design of the building and receive rent of $1 per year
based on the university receiving in-kind or programmatic value
for the market value of the land.
Trustees also authorized employment of a developer to
design, finance, and construct improvements if requested by
tenants at another Research Park facility at 1275 Kinnear Road.
The improvements are to be funded from long-term leases with
tenants. However, tenants would retain the right to arrange for
improvements with other developers.
The former Simmons factory contains two buildings with about
278,000 square feet on 11 acres. About 50,000 square feet has
been earmarked for the Columbus Business Technology Center. The
tenant improvement program will involve another 100,000 square
feet targeted for occupancy and redevelopment by tenants
affiliated and involved in research with the university.
BOARD RENAMES BUDGET, ARCHITECT'S OFFICES
The board renamed the combined offices of University Budget
Planning, Campus Planning and Management Studies as the Office of
University Budget and Space Planning and renamed the University
Architect's Office as the Office of the University Architect and
Physical Planning. In addition, trustees made the Office of
Radiation Safety a part of the Office of Environmental Health and
Safety.
OTHER BUSINESS
In other matters, trustees:
=FE Authorized selection of Schesser Buckley Mayfield Inc. to
design improvements to the heating, ventilating and air
conditioning systems of The James Cancer Hospital and Research
Institute. The project, expected to cost $800,000, will improve
the air delivery system for the health and comfort of patients.
=FE Authorized officials to select architects and engineers to
design a waste materials storage facility. The store will house
low-level radioactive waste materials for up to 10 years until a
regional disposal facility can be constructed by the Midwest
Compact. Design costs are estimated at $242,500.
=FE Authorized requests for construction bids for the James
and waste materials projects.
=FE Voted to buy a two-story, frame, single-family house at
1594 Neil Ave. at a price not to exceed $84,000 from the estate
of Alice Elizabeth Martin. The residence was built in the early
1900s between Ninth and Tenth avenues. The property will be used
for housing for the immediate future.
=FE Voted to sell a single-family home at 932 City Park Ave.
in German Village for $150,000. The home was donated to The Ohio
State University Foundation by the estate of Kenneth E. Naylor,
who was a professor in the Department of Slavic and East European
Languages and Literatures. Proceeds will be added to The Kenneth
E. Naylor Professorship in the College of Humanities.
=FE Voted to sell a four-family town house at 4425 Indianola
Ave. for $155,000. The building was bequeathed to the foundation
by Donald R. Glancy, who was an associate professor of theatre.
Proceeds will be added to The Donald R. Glancy Fund for support
of WOSU.
=FE Granted 15-year easements to Ohio Power Co. for installing
electric service to Tom Turkey Building, 1601 Gossard Drive, Ohio
Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, and to
Warner Cable Co. to install underground fiber optic and coaxial
cable at the Lima Regional Campus along Biddle Drive to Cook Hall
and the Technical Education Laboratory.
=FE Authorized President E. Gordon Gee, Janet G. Pichette,
vice president for business and administration, and Jill Morelli,
assistant vice president and university architect, to sign and
submit documents to the Ohio Public Facilities Commission for
capital projects funded by Amended Substitute House Bill 790, and
to ensure compliance with commission regulations in overseeing
planning, development and construction activities.
=FE Resolved to comply with all laws governing the selection
of consultants, preparation and approval of contracts, receipt of
bids, and award of contracts for state-funded capital projects
administered by Ohio State. The 1994 capital budget law permits
universities to administer construction, improvements and
renovations costing less than $1.5 million, and basic and
supplemental renovations not exceeding $500,000. Before, many of
such projects were conducted through state government.
=FE Authorized Pichette to sign and execute contracts and
other documents necessary to carry out university business.
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Contact: Tom Spring, University Communications, (614) 292-8309.
[Submitted by: REIDV (reidv@ccgate.ucomm.ohio-state.edu)
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