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Council clears hurdle for high-tech research center in North Amherst "> A artist’s rendering shows the 80,000-square-foot building that will house the technology and manufacturing incubator, which will bring together businesses, UMass researchers and scientists. COURTESY IMAGE Published: 7/14/2021 1:44:25 PM AMHERST — Amherst officials will allow a North Amherst property used for agricultural purposes to be sold to a private developer interested in bringing a high-tech research center to the site. The Town Council on Monday voted 13-0 to not exercise its right of first refusal to buy the land, situated between Sunderland and Montague roads north of Cowls Road and owned by the Thomas F. Mitchell Family Trust and Mitchell Family Farm Trust.