Collection, 1966-1988.

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Collection, 1966-1988.

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Files documenting the creation and operation of the University Research Park, established in northeast Charlotte in 1966 as a research and development park for business and industry. Includes correspondence, board minutes, financial and legal records, and information on marketing strategies and tenant firms. Also includes interviews with the park's early leaders and other material relating to the published history of the park, University Research Park (1988), by Dean W. Colvard.

2 linear feet (ca. 3,800 items, including 5 cassettes)

University of North Carolina, Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7584621

University of North Carolina, Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library

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University Research Park (N.C.)

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Located in northeast Charlotte near UNCC, University Research Park, Inc. was created in 1966 as a non-profit corporation established to provide the "proper setting and atmosphere to give birth to the new ideas and techniques that will lead Charlotte into the future" (brochure, 1968). Sponsored and initiated by the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce to promote and develop a research and development park for business corporations, the project draws its officers and directors primarily from the local bu...

Colvard, Dean W., 1913-2007

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First Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (1967-), Colvard received a B.S. from Berea College, an M.A. from the University of Missouri, and a Ph.D. from Purdue University. He was a professor and Head of the Department of Animal Science (1948-1953) and Dean of the College of Agriculture (1953-1960) at North Carolina State College. Colvard was also Superintendent of the Mountain Branch Agricultural Research Station, Waynesville, (1938-1946). He left North Carolina State Uni...