U of Minnesota researchers grumble over UMore development
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“I feel like [the regents] weren’t looking at the income that the station was generating, and they didn’t look at the whole picture because the University wanted to push this through real quick."
-- Twenty-year University of Minnesota researcher Fred Hrbek on the U of M's plans to turn the UMore Park -- 5,000 acres used for ag and other research -- into a gravel mine and sustainable housing development. U administration says the researchers will be able to work elsewhere, though, and a large portion of the land can still be used for research for another 10-12 years.
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