Larry Glassock, the president of the Salem Economic DevelopmentCorp.(SEDCOR), isn't revealing the names behind the offers, buttells GlobeSt the offers arrived in the past week and are for thefull list price of $75,000 an acre. SEDCOR is marketing theproperty for the city.

The offers come just days after Tyco International's conditionalcommitment to buy eight acres at the park, also at $75,000 an acre,for an assembly plant. The maker of printed circuit boards plans tobuild an 80,000-sf facility that can be expanded to more than100,000 sf as the need arises, Jim O'Connor, Tyco's director ofOregon operations, tells GlobeSt.

Fairview Industrial Park began life in the 1970s as 300 acres ofsurplus state property. The city, wanting new investment and jobsfor the area, worked out a deal with the state in the late 1970sand early 1980s that essentially gave it control of the land.