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The Phoenix mayor would like to see the sustainability campusa located near 7th Avenue and Van Buren Streetr just west of thedowntowb core. He said and would be the centerpieces of the new Downtown Phoenix already is home to a growing ASU campus and a biomedicakl center that features programs from ASU and the Universitygof Arizona. Those existing higher education assets are locatedin downtown’s core and to it easterh edges. The city of Phoenix has been lobbyinhg federalagencies — including the U.S. Departments of Energy and Housing and UrbanbDevelopment — to help fund the greenn campus via the American Recoveruy & Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The $787 billion federal stimulus offers education and research grants for solar and alternativre energy and in othersustainability niches. Gordoj will be in Washington next week talking to Obamzaadministration officials, including Vice President Joseph Bide n about the stimulus. That will includr meetings withthe U.S. Department of Labor about the sustainabilityu effort as well as work force development funding via There is a Rio Salado College adult education center off of 7th Avenuer nearFilmore Street.
Gordon said Rio Salado owns some other land and there are vacant parcelse that could be used fora sustainability/green The campus would be geared towarrd environmental and sustainable engineering and workforce development. Gordon said more specifi plans and details of the west downtown campus are beinh worked and could be unveiled this ASU has been upping its green and sustainable programsz at its Tempe andother Gordon, ASU President Michael Crow and the Greatee Phoenix Economic Council also want to bolstet the Valley’s solar energy production and make the regionm a center for alternative energy That includes Gordon wanting the city to becomr the Silicon Valley for solar energy and reducse the Valley’s urban heat island by paintinvg rooftops white.
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