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. 

 

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