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EVENDALE, OH (FOX19) - The state of Ohio has made a big commitment to keeping General Electric Aviation in Evendale.
Jobs are solid, new high-tech jobs are coming and University of Cincinnati students will soon be getting in on the action, as the university announced a partnership with GE.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland also visited Thursday, touting that the state gave GE Aviation significant tax breaks, insuring a longer lease on life and jobs in the region.
"We are very, very grateful that GE is here and will remain here for many years, decades to come," said Strickland.
The whole package includes around $200 million to transform and revitalize GE's aging campus.
New UC president Gregory Williams says thousands of students have interned then gone on to work at GE. So now, they are establishing a premiere research institute, which will attract new, high-tech paying jobs.
UC and GE also won a $28 million dollar research scholars grant.
"So we are going to make it a priority to make it our due diligence on the of this truly pioneering partnership and our hope is to forge a truly unique university, industry, state collaboration," said Williams.
The 'Old 701,' and art deco-style building will be the first building to be demolished when the revitalization project begins. CEO David Joyce says they're gonna keep parts of the building for nostalgia's sake.
"We'll take a few pieces of that building and make some art pieces out of it and put it around the campus just to keep us all humbly reminded of where our beginnings are," said Joyce.
Joyce says they hope to reduce about a million square feet of what is today's site and make more green space out of it as they grow outward.
"That building, by the way, was created the same year I was born," said Joyce.
Governor Strickland says he would like a brick or two to keep once the building is torn down.
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