LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - State officials will begin considering the future of Nebraska's State Fair Park on Monday when the Legislature's Agriculture Committee hears the results of a $150,000 study on the best place for the fair.
The University of Nebraska is pushing for the site to be used for a new technology park to be used for research. But fair board members say the university might be doing so too aggressively.
State lawmakers took up the heated debate in January and ordered a formal study, which the fair board agreed to pay for.
A group of Lincoln business and civic leaders wants to move the fair from its current location to another site six miles away.
Proponents of the move say it would create space for the university to expand, particularly research functions of the school.
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