The first office building at Oyster Point's Tech Center Research Park – and the pattern it will set for the rest of the park — comes before the Newport News City Council for approval Tuesday, even though most of the land for the $450 million project isn't yet nailed down.
The council is scheduled to vote on the first phase of a master development plan for the research park, clearing the way for developer W.M. Jordan Co. to build a three-story, 80,000-square-foot building behind the Applied Research Center.
"You can't do the rest until you do the first," said John Lawson, W.M. Jordan's president and chief executive officer.
