NATCHITOCHES, La. (NSU) – Leadership from Northwestern State University and the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts briefed U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy Monday on a joint partnership to develop an innovation center to serve as a business incubator for entrepreneurship with academic and educational components that would benefit the two schools and the community.
The LSMSA/NSU Innovation Center is budgeted to cost about $15 million and would be located on University Parkway just west of Sam Sibley Drive. The proposed plan dovetails with Natchitoches Next, the 2023 City of Natchitoches Master Plan, which foresees the LSMSA/NSU Innovation Center as a feature destination of a Campus Edge District, a walkable, active pedestrian corridor designed to create a positive first impression of the city.
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