Janelia Farm Research Campus to expand - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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The plans call for the Chevy Chase nonprofig institute to build new temporary campus housin forgraduate students, postdoctoral researcher s and visiting scientists near the main entrance of its firsgt standalone research campus, a 689-acrre expanse that opened three yearsz ago as the first of its kind in Northern The project, entailing 60 new one-bedroom is meant to help the research institute attractr more scientific talent from around the worlxd to its 240-strong staff. “Graduate students and post docs are with us for a relativelgy short period of time and they place a high value on livingf close totheir laboratories,” said Gerry Janelia Farm’s director.
This marks the firs t major expansion forJanelia Farm, touted as a $500 million biomedicall crown jewel for Northern Virginia, and a rare construction project in an otherwise gloomy commercial real estated market hit hard by the recession. WDG Architecture of Washington, D.C., is helping design the new 80,000-square-foott building, which will boast the same curvef shape asthe campus’ flagship, glass-walled research Ashburn-based Dietze Construction Group will oversee construction, expected to begin this Labodr Day weekend and be complets in a year’s time.
The four-story buildiny will include a ground floor with commom areas and covered parking for 61 all topped by threeresidential floors. Each incorporating natural lightand loft-like configurations, will contain 20 one-bedroom apartments, most including an additional den. They will join Janeliaz Farm’s housing village, alreadyy composed of 21 studios and32 multi-bedroom apartments and by now fully occupied by visiting staffers. The institute will chargd the short-term residents rent to help cover monthlh expenses of thenew space. “Itf is intended to break saidAvice Meehan, institute spokeswoman.
“There’s no immediate plansw for additionalhousing [after this project]. This will satisfyh our needs for some time to The Howard Hughes institute has applied for upto $23 millionm in tax-exempt bonds with the Loudoun County Industrial Development Authority to finance the apartment building projecyt and related costs -- an application that must also go before the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. With a $17.t5 billion endowment, Howard Hughes Medical Institutefunda long-term biomedical research by its 2,40p0 scientist employees or collaborators nationwide, to the tune of $658 million last fiscapl year alone.
Janelia Farm, anticipatintg to be fully staffec in the nexttwo years, spen roughly $100 million on researcn projects and operations last fiscal