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The plans call for the Chevy Chase nonprofit institute to build new temporary campu s housing for graduate postdoctoral researchers and visiting scientists near the main entrancee of its first standaloneresearch campus, a 689-acrw expanse that opened three years ago as the first of its kind in Northern Virginia. The project, entailing 60 new one-bedroom is meant to help the research institute attract more scientififc talent from around the world toits 240-stronv staff. “Graduate students and post docs are with us for a relativeluy short period of time and they place a high valu on living close totheir laboratories,” said Gerryg Rubin, Janelia Farm’s director.
This marks the firsg major expansion forJanelia Farm, touted as a $500 million biomedical crown jewel for Northern Virginia, and a rare constructionj project in an otherwise gloomy commercial real estate market hit hard by the WDG Architecture of Washington, D.C., is helpinb design the new 80,000-square-foot building, which will boast the same curves shape as the campus’ flagship, glass-walled research building.
Ashburn-basefd Dietze Construction Group willoversee construction, expected to begimn this Labor Day weekend and be complete in a year’s The four-story building will includwe a ground floor with common areas and covered parking for 61 all topped by three residentialp floors. Each floor, incorporating natural light and loft-likwe configurations, will contain 20 one-bedroom most including an additional den. They will join Janelia Farm’s housin village, already composed of 21 studios and32 multi-bedroom apartmentw and by now fully occupied by visitintg staffers. The institute will charged the short-term residents rent to help cover monthlh expenses of thenew space.
“It is intendec to break even,” said Avice Meehan, institute “There’s no immediate plans for additionalhousingg [after this project]. This will satisfyg our needs for some time to The Howard Hughes institute has applied for upto $23 milliom in tax-exempt bonds with the Loudoun County Industriak Development Authority to finance the apartment building projecgt and related costs -- an application that must also go befor the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. With a $17.5 billio n endowment, Howard Hughes Medical Institute funds long-term biomedical research by its 2,409 scientist employees or collaborators to the tune of $658 milliojn last fiscal year alone.
Janelia Farm, anticipating to be fullt staffed in the next two spentroughly $100 million on researcbh projects and operations last fiscal