08-31-94 Trustees: Research Park Leases, etc. RELOCATION OF EDISON WELDING, SILLIKER TO PERMIT EXPANSION COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees Wednesday (8/31) authorized administrators to negotiate and enter into long-term leases on West Campus with Edison Welding Institute and Silliker Laboratories of Ohio Inc. Trustees also acted on several other property, real estate and capital project matters. The leases would enable Edison and Silliker to move from facilities on Kinnear Road to new, larger buildings. Ohio State would lease about 10 acres of land on Lane Avenue west of Carmack for Edison and a smaller tract on Kinnear west of the Museum of Biological Diversity for Silliker. "These two actions will strengthen the university research park in areas that have a proven track record for enhancing student research participation at both the undergraduate and graduate levels," said Edward F. Hayes, vice president for research at Ohio State. Hayes added that such research experiences permit the university to attract and graduate outstanding students in technology areas that are of economic importance to the state and the nation. Edison, the nation's largest industrial consortium dedicated to material joining technology, is seeking to greatly expand its operations to meet increasing demands for joining technology research and development. According to Ohio State's Office of Research, materials joining contributes approximately $50 billion annually to the U.S. economy and is a major determinant of manufacturing competitiveness. Edison Welding Institute serves 300 member companies at more than 2,700 plants across Ohio and the nation. In a recent two-year period, members quantified more than $100 million in benefits from Edison's assistance. The institute has proposed constructing a 129,000 square- foot Edison Joining Technology Center that will more than double current available space and enable the institute to double revenues and technical and training capacity in the first five years. Seen by some of Ohio's leading manufacturers as a critical addition to revitalizing Ohio manufacturing, the Edison expansion project has been endorsed by Columbus Mayor Greg Lashutka and U.S. Rep. Deborah Pryce, and has won the support of the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce and the Ohio Department of Development. Over the past 10 years, Edison Welding has provided Ohio State more than $5 million in cooperative research and project funding, along with teaching, research and employment opportunities for welding engineering students. Silliker, a private, for-profit food testing laboratory, supports instructional and research programs in the Department of Food Science and Technology and the Department of Microbiology. Officials in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences said Silliker provides employment for several graduate and undergraduate students and provides students with laboratory space, materials and equipment unavailable elsewhere. Ed Richter, director of Silliker labs, teaches courses in advanced food microbiology as an adjunct professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology. The leases would be for no more than 40 years, including renewal periods. Titles to the facilities and improvements would pass to the university at the end of the leases and any renewal periods. Under terms of a lease, Ohio State would approve the site and design of the building and receive rent of $1 per year based on the university receiving in-kind or programmatic value for the market value of the land. Trustees also authorized employment of a developer to design, finance, and construct improvements if requested by tenants at another Research Park facility at 1275 Kinnear Road. The improvements are to be funded from long-term leases with tenants. However, tenants would retain the right to arrange for improvements with other developers. The former Simmons factory contains two buildings with about 278,000 square feet on 11 acres. About 50,000 square feet has been earmarked for the Columbus Business Technology Center. The tenant improvement program will involve another 100,000 square feet targeted for occupancy and redevelopment by tenants affiliated and involved in research with the university. BOARD RENAMES BUDGET, ARCHITECT'S OFFICES The board renamed the combined offices of University Budget Planning, Campus Planning and Management Studies as the Office of University Budget and Space Planning and renamed the University Architect's Office as the Office of the University Architect and Physical Planning. In addition, trustees made the Office of Radiation Safety a part of the Office of Environmental Health and Safety. OTHER BUSINESS In other matters, trustees: =FE Authorized selection of Schesser Buckley Mayfield Inc. to design improvements to the heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems of The James Cancer Hospital and Research Institute. The project, expected to cost $800,000, will improve the air delivery system for the health and comfort of patients. =FE Authorized officials to select architects and engineers to design a waste materials storage facility. The store will house low-level radioactive waste materials for up to 10 years until a regional disposal facility can be constructed by the Midwest Compact. Design costs are estimated at $242,500. =FE Authorized requests for construction bids for the James and waste materials projects. =FE Voted to buy a two-story, frame, single-family house at 1594 Neil Ave. at a price not to exceed $84,000 from the estate of Alice Elizabeth Martin. The residence was built in the early 1900s between Ninth and Tenth avenues. The property will be used for housing for the immediate future. =FE Voted to sell a single-family home at 932 City Park Ave. in German Village for $150,000. The home was donated to The Ohio State University Foundation by the estate of Kenneth E. Naylor, who was a professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures. Proceeds will be added to The Kenneth E. Naylor Professorship in the College of Humanities. =FE Voted to sell a four-family town house at 4425 Indianola Ave. for $155,000. The building was bequeathed to the foundation by Donald R. Glancy, who was an associate professor of theatre. Proceeds will be added to The Donald R. Glancy Fund for support of WOSU. =FE Granted 15-year easements to Ohio Power Co. for installing electric service to Tom Turkey Building, 1601 Gossard Drive, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, and to Warner Cable Co. to install underground fiber optic and coaxial cable at the Lima Regional Campus along Biddle Drive to Cook Hall and the Technical Education Laboratory. =FE Authorized President E. Gordon Gee, Janet G. Pichette, vice president for business and administration, and Jill Morelli, assistant vice president and university architect, to sign and submit documents to the Ohio Public Facilities Commission for capital projects funded by Amended Substitute House Bill 790, and to ensure compliance with commission regulations in overseeing planning, development and construction activities. =FE Resolved to comply with all laws governing the selection of consultants, preparation and approval of contracts, receipt of bids, and award of contracts for state-funded capital projects administered by Ohio State. The 1994 capital budget law permits universities to administer construction, improvements and renovations costing less than $1.5 million, and basic and supplemental renovations not exceeding $500,000. Before, many of such projects were conducted through state government. =FE Authorized Pichette to sign and execute contracts and other documents necessary to carry out university business. =20 # =20 Contact: Tom Spring, University Communications, (614) 292-8309. [Submitted by: REIDV (reidv@ccgate.ucomm.ohio-state.edu) Wed, 31 Aug 1994 13:57:00 -0500 (EST)] All documents are the responsibility of their originator.