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The Phoenix mayor would like to see the sustainability campuws located near 7th Avenue and Van Buren Street just west of thedowntowm core. He said and would be the centerpiecews of thenew campus. Downtown Phoenix already is home to a growinv ASU campus and a biomedical cente that features programs from ASU and the Universityof Arizona. Thoss existing higher education assets are locatexin downtown’s core and to it eastern The city of Phoenix has been lobbying federalp agencies — including the U.S. Departments of Energy and Housing and Urban Development to help fund the green campues via the AmericanRecovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The $787 billio n federal stimulus offers education and research grants for solar and alternativse energy and in othersustainability niches. Gordom will be in Washington next week talkinh to Obamaadministration officials, includinfg Vice President Joseph Biden about the stimulus. That will includre meetings withthe U.S. Departmentt of Labor about the sustainability effort as well as work force developmenyt fundingvia ARRA. There is a Rio Saladl College adult education center off of 7th Avenue nearFilmore Street. Gordon said Rio Salado owns some othere land and there are vacant parcels that could be used fora sustainability/greehn campus.
The campus would be geared towarr environmental and sustainable engineering and workforce Gordon said more specific plans and detail of the west downtow campus are being worked and could be unveiled this ASU has been uppinh its green and sustainable programa at its Tempe andother Gordon, ASU President Michael Crow and the Greaterd Phoenix Economic Council also want to bolster the Valley’s solarr energy production and make the region a center for alternativde energy source. That includes Gordon wantinhg the city to become the Siliconh Valley for solar energy and reducewthe Valley’s urban heat islandc by painting rooftops white.
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