{"id":5895,"date":"2009-09-14T15:31:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T19:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=5895"},"modified":"2019-08-01T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T13:37:22","slug":"ucf-sanford-incubator-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Sanford Incubator Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UCF Sanford Business Incubator is open for business after a ribbon-cutting ceremony Sept. 10.<\/p>\n<p>The incubator, located in the Welaka Building at 110 W. First St. in historic downtown Sanford, is a joint effort of UCF and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/locations\/\">City of Sanford<\/a>. It will involve participation from Seminole Community College\u2019s Small Business Development Center, the Florida High Tech Corridor and the Senior Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE).<\/p>\n<p>The UCF Business Incubation Program provides early-stage technology companies with the enabling tools, training and infrastructure to create financially stable, high-growth enterprises. After 10 years of operation, the program has served more than 130 companies, including more than 75 current clients. Clients and graduates have created more than 1,600 jobs with an average salary of approximately $60,000 and have received more than $200 million of investment capital. They generate more than $500 million in revenues annually.<\/p>\n<p>The Sanford location is the sixth site in the <a href=\"https:\/\/incubator.ucf.edu\/\">UCF Business Incubation Program<\/a>. The others are in Orlando, Winter Springs and Leesburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCF Sanford Incubator Open for Business","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":5896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-5895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UCF Sanford Incubator Opens | University of Central Florida News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UCF Sanford Incubator Open for Business\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UCF Sanford Incubator Opens\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UCF Sanford Incubator Open for Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-09-14T19:31:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-08-01T13:37:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2009\/09\/sanfordinc910091.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Barbara Abney \u201903MA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Barbara Abney \u201903MA\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Barbara Abney \u201903MA\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f78870261eab84f7d822c85d719c935e\"},\"headline\":\"UCF Sanford Incubator Opens\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-09-14T19:31:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-08-01T13:37:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":161,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/sanfordinc910091.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Business &amp; Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2009\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\\\/\",\"name\":\"UCF Sanford Incubator Opens | University of Central Florida News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/sanfordinc910091.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-09-14T19:31:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-08-01T13:37:22+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f78870261eab84f7d822c85d719c935e\"},\"description\":\"UCF Sanford Incubator Open for Business\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/sanfordinc910091.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/sanfordinc910091.jpg\",\"width\":480,\"height\":360,\"caption\":\"Cutting the ribbon to officially open the UCF Sanford Incubator are, from left, Bob Tunis, Sanford economic development director, Michael McLean, vice chair, Seminole County board of county commissioners, Sanford Mayor Linda Kuhn, and Dr. Tom O'Neal, associate vice president for research at UCF.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"UCF Sanford Incubator Opens\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today\",\"description\":\"Central Florida Research, Arts, Technology, Student Life and College News, Stories and More\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f78870261eab84f7d822c85d719c935e\",\"name\":\"Barbara Abney \u201903MA\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1c53220401ea66a9f635430314e0ae6ff5774138b7a909a7ebc6ac2277cd9800?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1c53220401ea66a9f635430314e0ae6ff5774138b7a909a7ebc6ac2277cd9800?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1c53220401ea66a9f635430314e0ae6ff5774138b7a909a7ebc6ac2277cd9800?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Barbara Abney \u201903MA\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/author\\\/babney\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\\\/#local-main-organization-logo\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\",\"caption\":\"University of Central Florida\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"UCF Sanford Incubator Opens | University of Central Florida News","description":"UCF Sanford Incubator Open for Business","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"UCF Sanford Incubator Opens","og_description":"UCF Sanford Incubator Open for Business","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/","og_site_name":"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCF","article_published_time":"2009-09-14T19:31:35+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-08-01T13:37:22+00:00","og_image":[{"width":480,"height":360,"url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2009\/09\/sanfordinc910091.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Barbara Abney \u201903MA","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@UCF","twitter_site":"@UCF","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Barbara Abney \u201903MA","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/"},"author":{"name":"Barbara Abney \u201903MA","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/f78870261eab84f7d822c85d719c935e"},"headline":"UCF Sanford Incubator Opens","datePublished":"2009-09-14T19:31:35+00:00","dateModified":"2019-08-01T13:37:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/"},"wordCount":161,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2009\/09\/sanfordinc910091.jpg","articleSection":["Business &amp; Economy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","copyrightYear":"2009","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/","name":"UCF Sanford Incubator Opens | University of Central Florida News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2009\/09\/sanfordinc910091.jpg","datePublished":"2009-09-14T19:31:35+00:00","dateModified":"2019-08-01T13:37:22+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/f78870261eab84f7d822c85d719c935e"},"description":"UCF Sanford Incubator Open for Business","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2009\/09\/sanfordinc910091.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2009\/09\/sanfordinc910091.jpg","width":480,"height":360,"caption":"Cutting the ribbon to officially open the UCF Sanford Incubator are, from left, Bob Tunis, Sanford economic development director, Michael McLean, vice chair, Seminole County board of county commissioners, Sanford Mayor Linda Kuhn, and Dr. Tom O'Neal, associate vice president for research at UCF."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"UCF Sanford Incubator Opens"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/","name":"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today","description":"Central Florida Research, Arts, Technology, Student Life and College News, Stories and More","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/f78870261eab84f7d822c85d719c935e","name":"Barbara Abney \u201903MA","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c53220401ea66a9f635430314e0ae6ff5774138b7a909a7ebc6ac2277cd9800?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c53220401ea66a9f635430314e0ae6ff5774138b7a909a7ebc6ac2277cd9800?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c53220401ea66a9f635430314e0ae6ff5774138b7a909a7ebc6ac2277cd9800?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Barbara Abney \u201903MA"},"url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/author\/babney\/"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-sanford-incubator-opens\/#local-main-organization-logo","url":"","contentUrl":"","caption":"University of Central Florida"}]}},"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2009\/09\/sanfordinc910091-300x225.jpg","primary_category":4,"primary_tag":null,"author_byline":"Barbara Abney \u201903MA","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5895"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101519,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions\/101519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5895"},{"taxonomy":"tu_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tu_author?post=5895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}