Wow, it's almost right out of one of PG's essays:

"At one extreme is the sort of pork-barrel project where a town gets money from the state government to renovate a vacant building as a 'high-tech incubator'" -http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html

Seems like a local government committee was tasked with improving startup conditions and they fell back on the idea that every other local government has tried in order to make their own silicon valley.

I ask, not to be snarky, but out of actual curiosity, has any "incubator" or "tech park" kicked off a successful startup community, however small? Or do they all just end up being government subsidized office space?