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Fishers plans incubator for life-sciences, tech startups
By Ashley Petry / Indianapolis Star correspondent
Posted: July 21, 2008

Since 1990, the population of Fishers has spiked from a sleepy 7,500 to more than 62,000. Now town leaders hope to enjoy the same success in attracting new companies -- especially high-tech and life-sciences companies -- to the Hamilton County community.
The Fishers Economic Development Commission has announced the planned development of the Fishers Research and Technology Campus, a technology and life-sciences incubator that eventually could include up to 1 million square feet of mixed-use commercial space.

The commission, a nonprofit run by the town and the chamber of commerce, has hired consultant Mark Long to spearhead the park's development.

Long previously led the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., where he oversaw development of the IU Emerging Technologies Center on the Central Canal in Downtown Indianapolis. He left that position in March to form a Greenwood-based business- consulting company, Long Performance Advisors.

IU estimates the Emerging Technologies Center has generated 350 high-tech jobs in Indianapolis at an average salary of $89,000. In March, the business incubator had 25 tenants and seven "graduate" companies.

The economic development commission is hoping for similar success with its own tech park, which is part of a larger strategy to attract jobs and investment to the community. In a news release from March 2007, the Fishers Chamber of Commerce estimated the park's first phase could create up to 300 jobs paying an average salary in excess of $75,000.

"Fishers has been working on this for the last three years because they felt a need to bring in an industry component that reflected the Central Indiana thrust of life sciences and technology," Long said.

The development commission is talking with several companies about relocating to the facility and has worked with BSA LifeStructures to develop the site's architecture.

Next on the agenda is site selection. Town officials are considering three parcels along I-69 between 96th and 121st streets but first may retrofit an existing building if tenants need space right away.

The organization hopes to select its site and break ground in a year, Long said, but plans have not been finalized."Right now, it could go a number of ways, quite frankly," said Christi Wolf, president of the development commission and the Fishers chamber. "We have a lot of prospects, and how we start and how quickly it goes will depend on some of those first few biotech or life-sciences businesses that come here."

The first step in the construction process will be a 40,000- to 50,000-square-foot business incubator, which will include wet-lab space. The built-out campus could include as many as seven buildings on a 40-acre site."We saw a general mix of different types (of space), so one building might be set up for laboratory space, another might be set up as a business incubator, and another might be set up for IT," said architect Jim Hill of BSA LifeStructures.

The first building will cost $8 million to $12 million, which will come from the companies themselves or investors, rather than taxpayers, Wolf said.

Future buildings will include common areas such as conference centers and coffee shops to encourage workers to visit other buildings. "You want to have the synergy and the walkability between the buildings," Wolf said.

The built-out campus will house 25 to 50 companies, from entrepreneurial information technology startups to established life-sciences manufacturing companies. Long said he also hopes to incorporate an educational component, with an area university offering workforce training and development programs.

When more details are finalized, the development commission plans to apply for Certified Technology Park status through the Indiana Economic Development Corp. If the application is approved, the Fishers Research and Technology Campus will join a list of 18 other certified tech parks across the state.

Mark Kosiarek, chief executive of VAI Technology, already owns facilities in Fishers. But as his company's line of semiconductor products expands this year, he said he will consider relocating a portion of his business to the Fishers Research and Technology Campus.
The key elements for the new campus, he said, will be a solid IT infrastructure, transportation infrastructure and access to an educated workforce.

"I think the educational and cost-of-living opportunity here in Fishers is a real attraction for people who want to relocate and bring their skill set to work for companies like ours," Kosiarek said.