The Board of Trustees approved the Cherokee Farm Master Plan at its annual meeting June 17.
Work continues on preparing the 77-acre site for infrastructure construction, which is expected to begin in August.
Construction on the federally funded Joint Institute for Advanced Materials building is scheduled to start in fall 2009. A proposed solar institute and research space for advanced materials development are to be housed there.
Cherokee Bluff Council of Co-owners representative Robbie Pope added to the Advisory Committee