MindTree to bring 400 High-Tech Jobs to the Gainesville Area

MindTree Limited, a global IT and product engineering company, has selected Gainesville as the site for its United States expansion, bringing 400 new jobs over the next five years and making a $2.925 million capital investment in the heart of Gainesville. [Read More]

"Start-up Dorm" Planned for Innovation Square

If you drive down Southwest 2nd Avenue in Gainesville, you'll see the first building of the Innovation Square campus, a ten-year project that started last fall. University of Florida President Bernie Machen said Tuesday, Innovation Square is "open for business." [Read More]

New projects add UF housing in neighborhood

UF announced two new buildings are in the works for Innovation Square. The first is the Infusion Technology Center, which will include laboratories, research and high-tech space. The second is a residence hall for entrepreneurial-minded students. The dorm, being built through a public-private partnership, will include as many as 120 beds. It will also include a penthouse for visiting venture capitalists and CEOs, who will be encouraged to meet with residents. [Read More]

University of Florida drives innovation, jobs

INSPIREation Hall is a dorm that will house entrepreneurial-minded UF students. The university — which has long focused on teaching, research, and service — is also looking to foster economic development. [Read More]

Technology hub in midtown is part of a 'new, seamless Gainesville'

Another building planned to be constructed adjacent to the hub, the 120,000-square-foot Infusion Technology Center, is intended for just such a purpose. A dormitory for entrepreneurial-minded students, now being called Inspiration Hall, also is planned for the AGH site. Other plans for the area include commercial businesses such as a grocery store and hotel. [Read More]

Innovation Square Developing Rapidly

Trimark Properties plans to build both an eight-story incubator and a specialized dorm for entrepreneurial students, helping the University of Florida and community leaders realize their vision of creating a unique work-live-play community in the heart of Gainesville. [Read More]

UF builds innovative complex for economic development

Situated just a block between the east edge of campus and downtown Gainesville, the development aims to bring together entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and students to create new money-making businesses or products in a "24/7 live-work-play community." But to participate, they'll have to prove themselves.[Read More]

Tech center, dormitory planned for UF's Innovation Square

The other building, being built through a public-private partnership, is a dormitory that will include up to 120 beds. It will have studios, one- and two-bedroom apartments, classrooms, a business center, video conference rooms and a penthouse for visiting venture capitalists and CEOs, who will be encouraged to meet with residents. [Read More]