{"id":38062,"date":"2016-02-08T19:06:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T19:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=38062"},"modified":"2016-02-08T22:10:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T22:10:11","slug":"acc-unveils-bioscience-incubator-plans-at-virtual-groundbreaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/02\/08\/acc-unveils-bioscience-incubator-plans-at-virtual-groundbreaking\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC unveils biotech incubator plans at virtual groundbreaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science industry representatives and community leaders joined Austin Community College as it unveiled plans for its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/biotech\/ac2institute\/aca\/\">Advanced Commercialization ACCelerator<\/a>\u00a0at a virtual groundbreaking February 4 in ACC Highland.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 200 guests viewed architectural renderings of the facility and demonstrations by biotechnology students, and participated in a countdown marking the beginning of construction, which is expected to take 10 months. Watch a video of the event and the virtual demolition:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B9e-JYNH_UJXUXlUd2RaNzNBX28\/preview\" title=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B9e-JYNH_UJXUXlUd2RaNzNBX28\/preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B9e-JYNH_UJXUXlUd2RaNzNBX28\/preview<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The business incubator will provide companies with the specialized equipment, wet-lab space, and conference areas they need to transform their research and concepts to marketable products. ACC students will be able to take advantage of real-world learning opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to see hundreds of millions of dollars of additional economic activity and thousands of jobs created by the kinds of things that are going to happen right here,&#8221; said Texas Sen. Kirk Watson. &#8220;This is a day for us to celebrate. This is a day for us to be extraordinarily proud of what it means to be a Central Texan and to have a college that, when it calls itself a community college, knows what it&#8217;s saying because it&#8217;s really embracing the community&#8217;s needs and the community&#8217;s vision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See photos from the event below.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/accdistrict\/albums\/72157661976969913\" title=\"ACC Advanced Commercialization Accelerator Groundbreaking by Austin Community College, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1664\/24189127344_c7c132a7fc.jpg' width='800' height='600' alt='Austin Community College Advanced Commercialization Accelerator'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science industry representatives and community leaders joined Austin Community College as it unveiled plans for its\u00a0Advanced Commercialization ACCelerator\u00a0at a virtual groundbreaking February 4 in ACC Highland. Approximately 200 guests viewed architectural renderings of the facility &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/02\/08\/acc-unveils-bioscience-incubator-plans-at-virtual-groundbreaking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3932,"featured_media":33049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[717,145],"class_list":["post-38062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-facstaff-news","tag-advanced-commercialization-accelerator","tag-biotech-lab"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3932"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}