D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray said Thursday at a meeting of the city’s top business leaders that he hopes to have a deal in place within months to bring Microsoft to the St. Elizabeths Hospital campus.

“I hope to have an agreement in the first quarter of 2012 to be bringing an innovation center to the District of Columbia and … in Ward 8,” he said at the D.C. Chamber of Commerce annual meeting. “[It] will be a catalyst for economic development.”

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