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Center will draw cash to region

Staff Reporter
Published Monday, April 3, 2006

City and University officials have projected a substantial direct economic benefit from the Yale-New Haven Cancer Center, but these officials and leading economists say the center's indirect contributions to both the city and the state will be far larger -- eventually.

The cancer center, which received the go-ahead for construction two weeks ago after a year of heated negotiations, is expected to pump a total of $1.1 billion into the New Haven County economy by 2012, according to a study performed by the Connecticut Economic Resource Center in 2004. More than 1,200 jobs will be...

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