In an ad that ran in yesterday’s Providence Journal, the Department of Administration is seeking proposals from property owners interested in selling a 50,000- to-70,000-square-foot commercial building “in the greater metropolitan area” to the state to be used as a new computer center. Responses are due back by Dec. 22.

Asked the rationale for seeking to buy a building when the state is struggling to pay its bills, Governor Carcieri’s spokeswoman, Amy Kempe, said: “The current [information-technology] center is a former used-car-lot building that is in poor shape and has more value to the surrounding businesses in the area. By relocating the IT department, the building and land can be sold at the appropriate time.”

Full Story: State in the market for new computer center Source: Providence Journal, December 2nd, 2008 Author: Katherine Gregg Added on December 2nd, 2008 at 9:46 am, by Matt Mikula