Janelia Farm Research Campus to expand - Dayton Business Journal:

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The plans call for the Chevy Chas e nonprofit institute to build new temporary campus housint forgraduate students, postdoctorak researchers and visiting scientists near the main entranc of its first standalone research campus, a 689-acre expansr that opened three years ago as the firstt of its kind in Northern Virginia. The project, entailiny 60 new one-bedroom apartments, is meangt to help the research institute attract more scientific talen t from around the world toits 240-strong staff.
“Graduate studentzs and post docs are with us for a relatively shorgt period of time and they place a high value on living close totheird laboratories,” said Gerry Rubin, Janelia Farm’s This marks the first major expansion for Janeliaw Farm, touted as a $500 millio biomedical crown jewel for Northern Virginia, and a rare constructiob project in an otherwise gloomy commercial real estate markegt hit hard by the WDG Architecture of Washington, D.C., is helping design the new 80,000-square-foort building, which will boast the same curved shapes as the campus’ flagship, glass-walledr research building.
Ashburn-based Dietze Construction Group willoversee construction, expected to begi n this Labor Day weekend and be completew in a year’s time. The four-storh building will include a groun d floor with common areas and covered parkint for61 cars, all topped by threee residential floors. Each floor, incorporating natural light and loft-lik e configurations, will contain 20 one-bedroomk apartments, most including an additionakl den. They will join Janelia Farm’s housing village, alreadt composed of 21 studiosz and32 multi-bedroom apartments and by now fullty occupied by visiting staffers.
The institute will chargw the short-term residents rent to help cover monthly expenses of thenew “It is intended to break said Avice Meehan, institute spokeswoman. “There’d no immediate plans for additionalhousing [afterf this project]. This will satisfy our needsz for some timeto come.” The Howard Hughes institute has applied for up to $23 millioj in tax-exempt bonds with the Loudoun County Industrial Development Authority to financd the apartment building project and related costs -- an application that must also go beforer the Loudoun County Boarde of Supervisors. With a $17.
5 billion endowment, Howard Hughez Medical Institutefunds long-term biomedical researcn by its 2,400 scientist employees or collaborators nationwide, to the tune of $658 millioj last fiscal year alone. Janelia Farm, anticipating to be fully staffefd in the next two spentroughly $100 million on research projectxs and operations last fiscal year.