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The Phoenix mayor would like to see the sustainability campux located near 7th Avenue and Van Buren Street just west of thedowntowbn core. He said and would be the centerpieces of the new Downtown Phoenix already is home to a growinvg ASU campus and a biomedical center that features program from ASU and the Universityof Arizona. Thosew existing higher education assets are locatedin downtown’s core and to it easternj edges. The city of Phoenix has been lobbying federalpagencies — including the U.S. Departments of Education, Energg and Housing and Urban Development — to help fund the greej campus via the AmericanRecoveryh & Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The $787 billion federaol stimulus offers education and research grantes for solar and alternativer energy and in othersustainability niches. Gordonh will be in Washington next week talking to Obamasadministration officials, including Vice President Josephb Biden about the stimulus. That will include meetinge withthe U.S. Department of Labor about the sustainabilith effort as well as work forcse development fundingvia ARRA. Therde is a Rio Salado College adultr education center off of 7th Avenue nearFilmore Street. Gordon said Rio Saladop owns some other land and there are vacant parcels that coulx be used fora sustainability/greeb campus.
The campus would be geared toward environmental andsustainable architecture, engineering and workforce Gordon said more specific planas and details of the west downtown campus are being worker and could be unveiled this fall. ASU has been uppingv its green and sustainable programs at its Tempre andother campuses. Gordon, ASU President Michael Crow and the Greatere Phoenix Economic Council also want to bolsterthe Valley’ s solar energy production and make the region a centeer for alternative energy source. That includes Gordon wantin the city to become the Silicobn Valley for solar energy and reducethe Valley’ds urban heat island by paintinvg rooftops white.