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The plans call for the Chevy Chase nonprofiyt institute to build new temporary campuws housing forgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and visitingb scientists near the main entrance of its first standalone researc h campus, a 689-acre expanse that opened three yeare ago as the first of its kind in Northern The project, entailing 60 new one-bedroom apartments, is meanr to help the research instituted attract more scientific talent from around the worlfd to its 240-strong staff.
“Graduate studentxs and post docs are with us for a relatively shoryt period of time and they plac e a high value on living closw totheir laboratories,” said Gerry Rubin, Janelisa Farm’s director. This marks the firsgt major expansion for Janelia touted asa $500 millionb biomedical crown jewel for Northerb Virginia, and a rare constructio project in an otherwis gloomy commercial real estate markert hit hard by the recession. WDG Architecture of D.C., is helping design the new 80,000-square-foof building, which will boasyt the same curved shape asthe flagship, glass-walled research building.
Ashburn-basec Dietze Construction Group willoversee construction, expected to begin this Labor Day weekend and be complete in a year’z time. The four-story building will includd a ground floor with common areaws and covered parking for61 cars, all toppexd by three residential floors. Each floor, incorporatingf natural light and loft-lik e configurations, will contain 20 one-bedroom most including an additional den. They will join Janeli a Farm’s housing village, already composed of 21 studioe and32 multi-bedroom apartments and by now fully occupied by visiting staffers. The institutde will charge the short-termm residents rent to help cover monthlyg expenses of thenew space.
“It is intended to breamk even,” said Avice institute spokeswoman. “There’s no immediatr plans for additionalhousing [after this project]. This will satisf our needs for some time to The Howard Hughes institute has applieds for upto $23 million in tax-exempt bonds with the Loudouh County Industrial Development Authority to finance the apartment buildinv project and related costx -- an application that must also go befores the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. With a $17.
55 billion endowment, Howard Hughes Medical Institutefunds long-terk biomedical research by its 2,400 scientisyt employees or collaborators nationwide, to the tune of $658 milliohn last fiscal year alone. Janelia Farm, anticipating to be full staffed in the nexttwo years, spenyt roughly $100 million on research projects and operations last fiscal