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The
Research Triangle Park, located in central North
Carolina, adopts the slogan: "The place where the
minds of the world meet".
A mixture of public and private funding formed the
Park, created in 1959. Located between Duke University
in Durham, North Carolina State University in Raleigh,
and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
the Park was designed to aid in scientific research
and development.
Situated in both Durham and
Wake
Counties, many state
and county incentives exist to draw new corporations
to the area. The quality of life in the triangle
region is outstanding, with low housing costs and an
exceptional educational system. The Triangle Park
itself has its own softball league and twelve miles of
jogging trails for the employees to use.
The Research Triangle Institute became the Park's
first tenant and it stands today as the fourth-largest
non-profit research organization in the nation. The
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
and IBM soon followed. Forty-two new companies
established their businesses here as well as more than
one hundred research and development facilities.
The Research Triangle Park studies everything from
virtual reality to statistics, medical research
projects and biotechnology. The non-profit MCNC as
well as the North Carolina Supercomputing Center offer
unparalleled resources to the local universities and
businesses surrounding the area. First envisioned as a
place where science and technology could work together
in a spirit of cooperation, Research Triangle Park
fulfills that dream.
RTP employees enjoy a wide variety of towns in which
to live. The Chapel Hill/Carrboro area nestles in the
rolling hills of North Carolina's Piedmont region,
with many quaint, historic small towns. Durham is
known as the 'City of Medicine' with wonderful medical
facilities and science and nature centers. Raleigh,
being the state Capital, remains a thriving cultural
center and offers the very finest in shopping,
recreation and entertainment, not to mention the best
in Southern cuisine.
North Carolina's Research Triangle Park remains true
to its founding vision, as well as quickly becoming
one of the most exciting areas for relocation in the
nation.
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