The Cornell Agriculture & Food Technology Park in Geneva, NY was recently awarded the Intelligent Facility of the Year Award by the Intelligent Community Forum, a nonprofit think tank that focuses on job creation and economic development in the broadband economy. The annual award program honors facilities that use broadband and information technology to add demonstrable value to the property, while contributing to the formation of growth of an intelligent community. EYP provided both master planning and design services for the technology park’s Phase 1 incubator building. The master plan involved more than 350,000 square feet of research laboratory, pilot plant, and community spaces, and the Phase 1 incubator building includes flexible space suitable for research or pilot plants, as well as shared support spaces and offices. Targeted users include entrepreneurs, start-up companies, and more mature companies conducting field and greenhouse trials in collaboration with the neighboring Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. According to ICF co-founder and Chairman John G. Jung, "This is a great example of how a local culture need not try to become a Silicon Valley , but can use its historic and geographic strengths, together with the intellectual capital from great universities, and harness them to broadband for good results".