Mayor Bloomberg has been "blown away" by the interest in the city's call to build a major tech campus and mentioned the possibility of selecting more than one winner.
Stanford submitted its bid to build a $2.5 billion, 1.9-million-square-foot eco-friendly engineering and applied science campus on Roosevelt Island Wednesday, responding to the city's call for proposals.
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are throwing their support behind Stanford in its fight to win the city's bid to develop a major engineering and applied science campus.
Cornell University, eyeing Roosevelt Island for a new engineering campus, announced it is partnering with the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in its bid.