At N.C. Research Campus, greenhouses replace glasshouse in research
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By Emily Ford, The Salisbury Post
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. — Although the high-tech, horticultural glasshouse that could attract a major private partner to the $1.5 billion N.C. Research Campus is still on hold, N.C. State University will construct two smaller greenhouses next month.
The two greenhouses off Glenn Avenue in Kannapolis will be identical to one already standing at the Piedmont Research Station near Salisbury. N.C. State erected that greenhouse last summer so the university's scientists would have a place to grow and cross-pollinate plants all year.
Originally, the university had planned to construct a 75,000-square-foot glasshouse complex at the Glenn Avenue site about a mile from the Research Campus, complete with growing fields and a headhouse. The large, expensive project has been delayed indefinitely due to the poor economy.
The university wants all three up and running in time for the spring growing season, said Tara Vogelien, director for business and research for N.C. State's Plants for Human Health Institute in Kannapolis.
For more details, see the Salisbury Post report.
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