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March 27, 2008 - 1:37PM
Updated: March 27, 2008 - 11:10PM
More international firms sign up at SkySong
Tony Natale, Tribune
Nine more high technology organizations, including major firms from the United Kingdom, Singapore, China and Israel and universities from Ireland and Mexico, have signed partnership agreements with SkySong and Arizona State University.
The latest pacts, announced during an official SkySong grand opening Thursday by ASU President Michael Crow, bring the total number of SkySong partnerships to 29 companies and five universities from 11 countries.
“The world has become what America has grown through — a highly global economy,” Crow told several hundred visitors to SkySong, a joint collaboration of the ASU Foundation, Scottsdale and private developers.
“This project is a linkage point that makes Arizona State University and Arizona available to America and the international community.”
Among other countries that are partnering with the ASU Foundation at the high-tech hub at the southeast corner of Scottsdale and McDowell roads are Japan and Turkey.
Crow and Scottsdale Mayor Mary Manross spoke.
“This is a great day for Scottsdale,” Manross said. “What happens here will have an enormous impact locally, statewide and globally.”
Scottsdale purchased the more than 32 acres of the former home of Los Arcos Mall and contributed more than $80 million to the SkySong project. The first commercial building opened early this year. ASU occupies the second floor. Other tenants include American Solar and Canon. A second commercial building is scheduled to open later this year.
Arturo Molina, vice president of research and technology development for Tecnológico de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico, said his university and ASU have student exchange programs at SkySong. “Our students will have an opportunity to see what the technology market looks like here.”
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