A Different Type Of Company Town
20 August 2002 - 12:00pm
Eric Engstrom and Swain Porter have designed an innovative company town that blends a corporate atmosphere into a rural setting.
"Eric Engstrom and Swain Porter have hatched a new town in the center of India with an Eastern Washington pedigree. The Washington state technology executives are founding partners of New Oroville, a self-contained software business emerging on 50 acres of sheep pasture a dozen miles from the nearest city. "
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India Currents, October 10, 2005
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