NYC Gets 7 Proposals for Applies Sciences Campus

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the New York City received seven proposals in a search for a new engineering and applied sciences campus.

Bloomberg said Monday that one of the projects will be selected in January. The winner will receive access to city-owned land and up to $100 million in city capital.

Seven qualifying proposals from a total of 17 institutions were submitted. Most institutions partnered to form consortiums.

City officials will consult an advisory committee of business and university officials as they choose the winner.

Columbia University, Stanford University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology are among the participating schools. The complete list of institutions that submitted proposals for sites include, according to the Mayor's Office:

• Amity University (Governor’s Island)
• Carnegie Mellon University/Steiner Studios (Brooklyn Navy Yard)
• Columbia University (Manhattanville)
• Cornell University/Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Roosevelt Island)
• New York University/University of Toronto/University of Warwick (UK)/The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay/City University of New York and Carnegie Mellon (Downtown Brooklyn)
• New York Genome Center/Mount Sinai School of Medicine/Rockefeller University/SUNY Stony Brook (Midtown Manhattan)
• Stanford University/City College of New York (Roosevelt Island)

The schools said they will focus on areas including information technology, digital media, sustainable urban growth, electrical engineering, public health, genome sequencing and computer science.

The Mayor's Office said the partnership is estimated to generate $6 billion in economic activity over the next 35 years, create more than 30,000 permanent and construction jobs for New Yorkers, and roughly $1.2 billion in direct and indirect taxes for the city.