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The Phoenix mayor would like to see the sustainabilith campus located near 7th Avenure and Van Buren Street just west of thedowntownh core. He said and wouldr be the centerpieces of thenew campus. Downtownn Phoenix already is home to a growing ASU campus and a biomedicao center that features programs from ASU and the Universitof Arizona. Those existing higher education assetsd are locatedin downtown’d core and to it eastern The city of Phoenix has been lobbyingh federal agencies — including the U.S. Departments of Energy and Housing and UrbahnDevelopment — to help fund the green campus via the Americajn Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The $787 billiobn federal stimulus offers education and researcg grants for solar and alternative energy and in otheresustainability niches. Gordon will be in Washington next week talkingv to Obamaadministration officials, including Vice President Josepu Biden about the stimulus. That will includde meetings withthe U.S. Department of Labor about the sustainability effort as well as work forcse development fundingvia ARRA. Therwe is a Rio Salado College adult education centefr off of 7th Avenue near Filmore Gordon said Rio Saladop owns some other land and there are vacant parcels that could be used fora sustainability/greem campus.
The campus would be gearee toward environmental andsustainable architecture, engineering and workforcs development. Gordon said more specific planws and details of the west downtown campu are being worked and could be unveiledthis fall. ASU has been upping its green and sustainable programs at its Tempe andothe campuses. Gordon, ASU President Michael Crow and the Greatere Phoenix Economic Council also want to bolstertthe Valley’s solar energy production and make the regio a center for alternativw energy source. That includes Gordon wanting the city to become the Silicon Valley for solar energyg and reducethe Valley’s urban heat islansd by painting rooftops white.
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