June 24, 2004

San Jose Bioscience Incubator is open and ready for business

The 36,500-square-foot San Jose Bioscience Incubator and Innovation Center, located on Optical Court in South San Jose’s Edenvale Technology Park, officially opened on June 21 following a ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted by San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales. The facility is a partnership between the Bay Area Global Access Innovation Network (GAIN), the San Jose State University Foundation and the San Jose Redevelopment Agency. Before the ribbon-cutting, several dignitaries spoke, including local politicians, technology leaders and Dr. Arthur Kornberg, 1959 Nobel Prize laureate for physiology and medicine and father of Bioscience Incubator designer Ken Kornberg.

Snipping the ceremonial scissors are, from left, San Jose Redevelopment Agency Interim Director Harry Mavrogenes; District 2 San Jose City Councilmember Forrest Williams; Mayor Gonzales; District 1 San Jose City Councilmember Linda J. LeZotte; San Jose State University Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Marshall Goodman; Bay Area GAIN partner and Women’s Technology Cluster Vice President of Strategic Partnerships Melinda Richter; and Bay Area GAIN partner and Building Blox Solutions founder Kathleen Imhoff.

—Photograph by Shari Kaplan