TROY – The Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, headquartered on the Hudson River at Beacon, will now have a satellite facility to the north.

State officials announced a $10 million grant for establishment of an upriver installation in the City of Troy to be a partnership between the city, RPI and the Institute, said Institute Executive Director John Cronin.

“What it brings together is the kind of collaboration that helped to build Tech Valley, collaboration based on innovation and technological advancement,” he said. “Out of this upriver center, we will see the kind of innovations that are going to bring the new technologies to monitoring the Hudson River, putting new information classrooms and in the hands of researchers.”

The total cost of the center will be $15 million.

It will be constructed on an old brownfield site that was a former junkyard on the Troy waterfront.