Featured Article: Creating a Better Leaf - The New Yorker

Stephen Long, the Director of Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) located in the University of Illinois Research Park as well as a professor of plant biology and crop sciences at the University of Illinois was featured in an article of the New Yorker.

”This story begins about two billion years ago, when the world, if not young, exactly, was a lot more impressionable. The planet spun faster, so the sun rose every twenty-one hours. The earliest continents were forming—Arctica, for instance, which persists as bits and pieces of Siberia. Most of the globe was given over to oceans, and the oceans teemed with microbes…” To read the complete article from The New Yorker click here.

RIPE HTP Greenhouse located in the University of Illinois Research Park

1907 S. Fourth Street - Construction Progress

Available August 2020, 1907 S. Fourth Street is a two-story 40,000 square foot commercial office building located in the University of Illinois Research Park. The building is located in a park-like setting overlooking two beautifully landscaped ponds with century-old oak trees and is steps away from the State Farm Center and the I-Hotel and Conference Center. 1907 S. Fourth Street offers beautifully designed building common areas to promote collaboration, and the PV (Solar) system on the roof creates energy from the sun.

Interested in pre-leasing a suite at 1907 S. Fourth Street? Contact Dana Flinn-Freeland, broker, FDC LLC.

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