The High-Tech South: Part Two
11 January 2001 - 10:00am
Joel Kotkin continues his two-part series on the High-tech South, focusing on Raleigh-Durham.
"Few places in the South, or in the nation generally, have enjoyed more of a "buzz" than North Carolina's Research Triangle Area. Built around the University campuses of Duke, the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State, the 7,000-acre private non-profit complex started in 1959, has become a symbol of the new "high-tech" South."
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REIS, January 5, 2001
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