May 16, 2007
Cornell Agriculture & Food Technology Park Finalist in International Facility Competition

Geneva, NY – The Cornell Agriculture and Food Technology Park has been recognized as one of the three finalists for the Intelligent Community Forums’ (ICF) annual Intelligent Facility of the Year Award. This honor is awarded to buildings, facilities, or office parks that have used broadband and information technology to add demonstrable value to the property as well as to contribute to the formation or growth of an intelligent community.

Finalists for the Intelligent Building award are selected by ICF based on nomination from developers, technology companies and experts in the field. Winners in the past two years have included the MaRS complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and Ebene Cyber Tower, a 12–story commercial building in Mauritius, Africa.

"The Cornell Agriculture & Food Technology Park recognizes that enabling the transfer of massive amounts of data with other entities is an enormous benefit to our tenants and their partners," explains Steve Isaacs, CAFTP executive director. "It’s just another point of leverage to help speed the exchange of ideas and the development of
new technologies."

The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) is a nonprofit think tank that focuses on job creation and economic development in the broadband economy. Each year ICF produces its conference and awards ceremony, Building the Broadband Economy, in New York City. This year’s event takes place on May 17–18 at Polytechnic University.

The Cornell Agriculture & Food Technology Park, also known as The Technology Farm, is a 72–acre campus that enables collaboration with world–class Cornell University faculty and the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Tenants can link to cutting–edge research in numerous competencies related to food, agriculture and bio-based sciences.

To date the Cornell Agriculture & Food Technology Park has completed a $10 million phase-one development transforming a former research farm into a university-based research park complete with high–end commercial infrastructure and a 20,000 ft² multi–tenant, business accelerator building.