This former home of the Iowa State University Press on State Avenue will be the new location for the ISU Research Foundation and Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer by the end of next week. Photo by Bob Elbert.
The combined staff in the ISU Research Foundation and Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer will move from its Lab of Mechanics offices to the State Avenue office building June 25-26. The building, located south of U.S. Highway 30, formerly was used by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing and, before that, ISU Press.
All staff members will keep their phone numbers.
On your GPS:
2121 State Ave.
The move is not a permanent one for the ISURF/OIPTT offices. (In fact, they'll keep 310 Lab of Mechanics as their mailing address for now.) When the university completes its new building in the research park sometime in 2016, these units will join other ISU research and economic development services working under one roof.
The move frees up central campus space that will, also temporarily, keep College of Engineering graduate students, student organizations and communications staff in the west part of campus while Marston Hall undergoes a major, 18-month renovation.
Furnished and flexible
The office building on State Avenue features 7,500 square feet of office space, most of which is in two large, open spaces. Facilities planning and management equipped those spaces with new office furnishings that create a collaborative, flexible work environment, said assistant director of space planning and management Margie Tabor.
She said the long-term plan for the building isn't known yet. The flexibility of the office space means that another unit could use it temporarily when the ISURF/OIPTT team vacates it.
"The building is in good condition and advantageous to the university because of its location," Tabor said. "The way we're outfitting it, it could be a temporary or permanent office."
Those who need immediate assistance from the ISURF/OIPTT staff on June 25 or 26 should call 294-6344.
