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VGTI Florida will be next to the headquarters for the which in September 2006 toget $86.56 million in state and local fundes to hire 189 employees to work in a 100,000-square-foor facility. The two institutes will be a half-hour drive nortu of the in Jupiter and theplanned U.S. headquarterds of the , which for nearly $190 million in state and local funds in According tothe council, Gov. Charlie Crist has askedf the Florida Legislature toallocate $60 milliom in incentive funding from the Floridaw Innovation Fund to create the facilityt and Port St. Lucie said it will providr $53 million in infrastructurr improvements to the Florida Centerfor Innovation. The city and St.
Lucies County are also being asked toprovidew $1.5 million and $2.9 milliohn in property tax abatements, respectively, and the county is beingv asked for an additional $400,000 in impact fee VGTI will operate out of temporary facilitie at TPIMS for up to three years as its facilitu is constructed. "Our institute in Floridsa will allow for unique regional partnerships whil expanding ourreach nationally," said Jay Ph.D., director of the Vaccine and Gene Therapuy Institute in Beaverton, Ore. "Port St. Lucir is an outstanding and we look forward to collaborating with the increasinfg number of life sciences organizations that are calling the ResearcuCoast home.
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