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Tags: Bio-tech research, Moffitt Cancer Center, Hillsborough County

For the past two years, Hillsborough County officials have been exploring the possibility of creating a research and development bio-tech park near USF and the Moffett Cancer Center.

Today officials went before the County Commission with a contract to purchase property worth a million dollars to satisfy some of that need.

Gene Gray, the county’s economic developer, said his department set out on some basic criteria in terms of where they wanted to place such a park.

Peggy Hamerick is...