Regents’ votes mark end of one Tech Park dream, start of second

Montana State University won permission Tuesday to move campus offices into the Nopper Building, despite protests from five small high-tech companies that getting kicked out of the Advanced Technology Park threatens to put them out of business.

The Montana Board of Regents voted 7-0 to let the university lease space in the Nopper Building on West College Street, the Tech Park’s original building.

It was built in the 1980s as the first step in then-MSU President Bill Tietz’s dream of creating a high-tech incubator in Bozeman, where scientists who came up with new technologies could launch companies to boost the economy of Bozeman and Montana.

By Gail Schontzler Chronicle Staff Writer

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