Several new tenants plan to move to the University of Idaho Research Park, in Post Falls, after a new building there is completed this week.


Doug McQueen, the research parks director, says the new tenants include a young Moscow, Idaho, biotech company called Super Green Inc.; a university team thats moving from another school; a regional U.S. Geological Survey water resources division; and an office for Silver Valley Labs Inc., a Kellogg-based water-analysis laboratory.


On July 29, the tenants will begin moving into the new single-story, 30,000-square-foot building, which is the first structure developed by UI at the 125-acre park, McQueen says.


Super Green is a small company that extracts nutrients and pharmaceutical elements out of plants. UI chemistry department Chairman Chien Wai started the company, which will take about 1,500 square feet of office and lab space when it moves to Post Falls from Moscow. McQueen says Wai will continue to operate the schools chemistry department from Super Greens Post Falls office.


The microelectronics and bio-molecular research center, called CAMBR, has leased about 6,000 square feet of office and lab space, and researchers are moving their lab operations there from the University of New Mexico. As was reported earlier this year, the centers research team is returning to UI after leaving a decade ago for New Mexico.


The U.S. Geological Survey has agreed to lease 4,000 square feet of office and lab space in the new building and is moving its water-resource division there from Sandpoint. That office currently consists of about eight people.


Silver Valley Labs, the Kellogg water-analysis company, plans to open a 200-square-foot office there initially, but expects to expand its presence there later, McQueen says.


A number of companies and university operations lease floor space in a building just north of the research park and also will move into the research parks new building. Those tenants include Ednetics Inc., a Post Falls-based network- and telecommunications-systems company that has leased 2,500 square feet of office space; Quest Integration Inc., an engineering-design company there that has taken about 2,000 square feet of space; and three geographic-information systems companies, Sentry Dynamics Inc., SpatialTek Inc., and Northwest Spatial Technologies Inc., each of which has leased 200 square feet of space.


The research park office and other UI operations will take about 10,000 square feet of floor space in the new building, and an Idaho state TechHelp office, which provides small companies with manufacturing and engineering assistance, will take about 600 square feet of space.


After all of the tenants move in, about 2,700 square feet of office and lab space still will be available, McQueen says.