California-Mexico border technology park gets green boost

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A long-delayed project to attract computer chip makers to the California-Mexico border is getting a green makeover, reports Marla Dickerson.

Silicon Border Development said Wednesday that it had obtained financing to move ahead with a science park in Mexicali, Mexico, thanks largely to a new strategy of targeting companies in the fast-growing solar energy industry.

German solar cell manufacturer Q-Cells is on track to break ground soon in the 3,000-acre site just across the border from Calexico, Calif., about 120 miles east of San Diego. It’s likely to be the first of what the developer hopes will be a slew of green technology companies looking to find a low-cost home near California, one of the world’s most promising markets for renewable energy.

‘Solar is growing so tremendously that it just makes sense,’ said Daniel ‘D.J.’ Hill, chairman and chief executive of Silicon Border Development.

Read the rest of the report on a new science park in Mexicali here.

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-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City