Waxhaw Research Park?

Apparently our mayor is working hard to get a research center in town.

The Charlotte Business Journal had an article on this last Friday. A few of the available snippets:

Waxhaw Mayor Daune Gardner is on a mission to bring a research park to her town.

... How about a 1,800-acre energy research park tucked in what is now a rural corner of Union County that would represent a $3 billion investment? The “energy hub” concept is already being pushed by economic developers and Duke Energy Corp. ...

Gardner has simply married the two and cranked up a scenario she says could bring 12,000 jobs to mostly suburban Waxhaw. She believes in the idea so much she has sought the advice of science-park experts, has been lobbying for a meeting with Gov. Bev Perdue and made presentations about the Waxhaw Area Research Park 70 times in the last six months. (my emphasis)

Maybe this is why she never showed up at the Waxhaw Athletic Association (WAA) Spring baseball opening day ceremonies on April 4th as expected?

Seventy presentations in six months is quite extraordinary; that works out to be one presentation on the research park every 2.6 days! I hope by now she's memorized her pitch verbatim.

This undated proposal appears to describe the following location.

Location:
The subject property is an area of land west of Waxhaw-Marvin road that has, until recently been under development by GS Carolina under the name of Millbridge containing roughly 1,200 acres. In South Carolina, the same developer has an adjoining project named Edenmoor that stretches to SC 521. The SC parcel is believed to be around 2,100 acres. The site is accessed by Waxhaw-Marvin Road on the east, Kensington Road on the north, NC 75 on the South and SC 521 on the west.

That seem about right?