College plans center to further link school with area business community

SCF's Center for Advanced Technology & Innovation will be built inside the school’s former library building on its Bradenton campus.

  • By Grier Ferguson
  • | 6:00 a.m. March 1, 2019
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Courtesy. Carol Probstfeld, president of State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota, with Sharon Hillstrom, president and CEO of the Bradenton Area Economic Development Corp., at an event announcing the center.
Courtesy. Carol Probstfeld, president of State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota, with Sharon Hillstrom, president and CEO of the Bradenton Area Economic Development Corp., at an event announcing the center.
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What was once a library will undergo a transformation into a center for another type of learning and development, one for advanced technology, jobs, and, officials hope, economic development. 

Grier Ferguson. The former library building on the State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota’s Bradenton campus, where a Center for Advanced Technology & Innovation will be established.
Grier Ferguson. The former library building on the State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota’s Bradenton campus, where a Center for Advanced Technology & Innovation will be established.

 

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