Ground was broken recently for a National Cancer Institute facility in Montgomery County,Maryland.Part of a Johns Hopkins University campus,the 200 million dollar project will consist of 575,000 square feet of office space over two connected buildings.It will house 2100 workers at completion in 2013,and is sited next to three JHU buildings already on Medical Center Drive.The buildings will be seven stories high and include retail space and a parking garage as well.
The project is part of the Shady Grove Life Sciences Center in the D.C. suburb of Rockville,Maryland.It will cover nine acres on the JHU campus,which is home to 16 biotech firms and serves 4,000 students and 450 faculty annually.The NCI facility supplements two others it currently occupies in Montgomery County.
Johns Hopkins University was the leading academic institution for total R&D spending in fiscal 2009 for the 31st consecutive year,according to the National Science Foundation.JHU spent 1.85 billion on medical,science and engineering research.
Johns Hopkins is spearheading a science city project in Montgomery County,Maryland.
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Science City Update
On May 4 in Montgomery County,Maryland,the County Council voted 9-0 to approve a master plan that supports the Johns Hopkins University science city project.Centered around farmland that Hopkins acquired below cost,the site is located off Shady Grove Road,west of I-270 in Gaithersburg,Maryland.It is hoped that about 52,000 jobs will be created by the development.
The university said the master plan demonstrates the best in smart-growth planning and provides the potential for high-paying bioscience and health care jobs,new mass transit,high-quality affordable housing,parks and other important amenities that will benefit the entire county.
Some residents and environmental groups continue to oppose the project even though it was scaled back in size and narrowed in scope.A nephew of the former landowner is also dissatisfied,saying the plan violates Hopkins' agreement with his aunt,who envisioned a smaller,"Jeffersonian" campus on the site.Tim Newell says he is moving toward filing a lawsuit against the university.Facing such opposition is a common ritual for developers of tracts of any size in the Mid-Atlantic region.
The university said the master plan demonstrates the best in smart-growth planning and provides the potential for high-paying bioscience and health care jobs,new mass transit,high-quality affordable housing,parks and other important amenities that will benefit the entire county.
Some residents and environmental groups continue to oppose the project even though it was scaled back in size and narrowed in scope.A nephew of the former landowner is also dissatisfied,saying the plan violates Hopkins' agreement with his aunt,who envisioned a smaller,"Jeffersonian" campus on the site.Tim Newell says he is moving toward filing a lawsuit against the university.Facing such opposition is a common ritual for developers of tracts of any size in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
University Plans Science City
Johns Hopkins University has been spearheading the drive to build a new research and development complex just north of Washington,D.C. in Montgomery County,Maryland.The Baltimore-based university says it wants to create an exciting,livable,research-oriented Montgomery County of the future.It hopes the 10 billion dollar project will rival Palo Alto,California or the Research Triangle in North Carolina.The mixed use development would include housing and retail as well as R&D.Local residents fear the project would result in more suburban sprawl,spawning heavy traffic.Supporters point to the residential and retail aspects of the plan,which they say will keep workers on site.
The Montgomery County Council has been narrowing the project's scope somewhat,raising the life sciences quotient from 30 to 40% of the site,which lies west of I-270,and diminishing the maximum square footage from 20 million square feet to 17.5 million.This has lessened the concerns of residents,but they still intend to keep a close eye on the matter.A final vote by the Council will probably be taken in June.
R&D projects are highly sought-after by numerous jurisdictions nationwide.Today more than ever,they need the good tax revenue such activity is believed to generate.The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is an economically successful example of such development in nearby Howard County,Maryland,although it does draw its share of commuters.
The Montgomery County Council has been narrowing the project's scope somewhat,raising the life sciences quotient from 30 to 40% of the site,which lies west of I-270,and diminishing the maximum square footage from 20 million square feet to 17.5 million.This has lessened the concerns of residents,but they still intend to keep a close eye on the matter.A final vote by the Council will probably be taken in June.
R&D projects are highly sought-after by numerous jurisdictions nationwide.Today more than ever,they need the good tax revenue such activity is believed to generate.The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is an economically successful example of such development in nearby Howard County,Maryland,although it does draw its share of commuters.
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