Give yourself an advantage as a buyer. Learn why you should get pre-approved early in your home search.
My Favorites is a program offered exclusively by Fonville Morisey Realty which allows you to save your favorite listings for later viewing!
Take advantage of our Seller's Guide. Learn what you can do to get the best price and your home sold quickly.
We've helped more families make the Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Chapel Hill area their new home than anyone else.
Choose from over 500 of the area's leading real estate professionals to sell your home or help you purchase one.
|
|
The
Research Triangle Park
The Research Triangle Park (RTP) was initiated in the early 1950s by the area's
leaders in education, industry and politics. These individuals included Governor
Luther Hodges, industrialist Romeo Guest and banking executive Robert Hanes. RTP
was fashioned after a similar industrial research complex outside of Boston. The
people who designed it believed our tri-city area would be ideal for such a
complex because it could, like the Boston complex, capitalize on the already
extensive research facilities available at the three major neighboring
universities. Today, approximately 75% of RTP is in Durham County, and
approximately 25% of it is in Wake County.
In 1956 the Research Triangle Committee (later renamed the Research Triangle
Foundation) acquired land and built the Research Triangle Institute. This
institute, the first organization in the Park, was established as an independent
corporate entity to conduct research on a contractual basis for business,
industry and government.
The Triangle proved to be an ideal location for a major research park. Over the
past thirty years, many of the nation's largest firms have decided to make RTP
their research headquarters, including Glaxo Wellcome, IBM, Nortel and Cisco
Systems. In addition, a number of government agencies have chosen RTP as their
home, such as the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency's Research Center, and the National Humanities
Center.
This wealth of industry, research and education, combined with the natural
beauty of the Piedmont region make the Triangle area one of the most exciting
places in the country to live.
Return to Areas
|
|
|
