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The plans call for the Chevy Chase nonprofit institute to build new temporary campus housing forgraduated students, postdoctoral researchers and visiting scientists near the main entrancew of its first standalone research a 689-acre expanse that openedr three years ago as the first of its kind in Northern The project, entailing 60 new one-bedroom is meant to help the research institutee attract more scientific talent from around the world to its 240-stronvg staff. “Graduate students and post docs are with us for a relativel short period of time and they place a high valud on living close to their saidGerry Rubin, Janeliwa Farm’s director.
This marks the first major expansiohn forJanelia Farm, touted as a $500 million biomedicalo crown jewel for Northern Virginia, and a rare constructiobn project in an otherwise gloomy commercial real estate market hit hard by the WDG Architecture of Washington, D.C., is helping designb the new 80,000-square-foot building, which will boast the same curvedd shape as the campus’ glass-walled research building. Ashburn-based Dietze Construction Group willoversee construction, expected to begin this Labor Day weekend and be completwe in a year’s time.
The four-story buildingt will include a ground floor with common areas and coveredf parking for61 cars, all topped by three residential floors. Each incorporating natural lightand loft-lik e configurations, will contain 20 one-bedroom most including an additional den. They will join Janelia Farm’zs housing village, already composed of 21 studios and32 multi-bedroom apartments and by now fully occupied by visitingt staffers. The institute will charge the short-term residentzs rent to help cover monthly expenses of thenew space. “If is intended to break even,” said Avice institute spokeswoman.
“There’s no immediates plans for additionalhousing [after this project]. This will satisfy our needs for some timeto come.” The Howardd Hughes institute has applied for up to $23 million in tax-exempgt bonds with the Loudoum County Industrial Development Authority to financr the apartment building project and related costs -- an applicatiom that must also go before the Loudounn County Board of Supervisors. With a $17.r5 billion endowment, Howard Hughes Medical Institutefunds long-termn biomedical research by its 2,400 scientistg employees or collaborators nationwide, to the tune of $658 million last fiscakl year alone.
Janelia Farm, anticipating to be fully staffer in the next two spentroughly $100 million on researc projects and operations last fiscal
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