The U.S. Department of Energy and City of Oak Ridge had a signing ceremony Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, at Pollard Technology Conference Center for the transfer of the roughly 17-acre American Museum of Science and Energy site. Pictured above at center is U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. Oak Ridge Mayor Warren Gooch is at right, and U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, an Ooltewah Republican, is at left. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
The U.S. Department of Energy and City of Oak Ridge had a signing ceremony Friday for the transfer of the roughly 17-acre American Museum of Science and Energy site. The property will be transferred from DOE to the city, and then to a company affiliated with RealtyLink, the developer of Main Street Oak Ridge at the former Oak Ridge Mall. Within about a year, AMSE will move to a two-story building that once housed a Sears store next to JCPenney at the former mall site. The AMSE site could be developed and the museum building demolished.
Here are photos from the Friday signing ceremony and of the AMSE property and the museum’s future home.
See a story from the signing ceremony here.
The American Museum of Science and Energy is pictured above on South Tulane Avenue in Oak Ridge on Monday, Jan. 2, 2017. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, seated at right, and Oak Ridge Mayor Warren Gooch, seated at left, sign a land transfer agreement at Pollard Technology Conference Center on Friday, Dec. 30, 2016. Also pictured are U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, an Ooltewah Republican, and Kenneth Tarcza, manager of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office Integrated Support Center. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
The U.S. Department of Energy and City of Oak Ridge had a signing ceremony Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, at Pollard Technology Conference Center for the transfer of the roughly 17-acre American Museum of Science and Energy site. Pictured above second from left is U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. Oak Ridge Mayor Warren Gooch is second from right, and U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, an Ooltewah Republican, is at left, while Neil Wilson of RealtyLink is at right. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
The American Museum of Science and Energy is pictured above on South Tulane Avenue in Oak Ridge on Monday, Jan. 2, 2017. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
An agreement signed Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, by the U.S. Department of Energy and City of Oak Ridge calls for the American Museum of Science and Energy missions to be relocated within about one year to 18,000 square feet of space in a two-story building that once housed a Sears store next to JCPenney at Main Street Oak Ridge. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
The southern portion of the AMSE property, or about 7.5 acres between the tree line and South Illinois Avenue, will be transferred first to TN Oak Ridge Illinois LLC, a company set up by RealtyLink, which is developing Main Street Oak Ridge. Officials expect this parcel to be developed within about two years. This picture was taken from near South Illinois Avenue, looking north toward AMSE. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
The AMSE property transfer will include the Tulane Place roadway, which cuts across the southern part of the AMSE property, between South Tulane Avenue and Badger Road. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Looking across the southern part of the AMSE property toward South Illinois Avenue. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Looking north across the AMSE parking lot toward the museum. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
The interior of the former Sears Roebuck Co. store next to JCPenney at the former Oak Ridge Mall is pictured above on Monday, Jan. 2, 2017. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
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