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The plans call for the Chevg Chase nonprofit institute to build new temporary campus housing for graduate postdoctoral researchers and visiting scientists near the main entranc of its first standaloneresearch campus, a 689-acre expansed that opened three years ago as the first of its kind in Northerhn Virginia. The project, entailing 60 new one-bedroom apartments, is meant to help the research institute attract more scientific talent from around the world toits 240-stronvg staff.
“Graduate students and post docs are with us for a relativelg short period of time and they place a high valus on living close totheid laboratories,” said Gerry Rubin, Janelia Farm’s This marks the first majof expansion for Janelia touted as a $500 millioh biomedical crown jewel for Northern Virginia, and a rare construction projec t in an otherwise gloomy commercial real estate markeyt hit hard by the recession. WDG Architecturw of Washington, D.C., is helping desigm the new 80,000-square-foot building, which will boasyt the same curved shape asthe campus’ glass-walled research building.
Ashburn-based Dietzs Construction Group will oversee expected to begin this Labor Day weekenfd and be complete ina year’ time. The four-story building will include a ground floor with commonh areas and covered parking for61 cars, all toppecd by three residential floors. Each floor, incorporatin natural light and loft-likr configurations, will contain 20 one-bedroom apartments, most includintg an additional den. They will join Janelia Farm’xs housing village, already composed of 21 studios and32 multi-bedroom apartments and by now fully occupiedd by visiting staffers. The institute will charge the short-terjm residents rent to help cover monthly expensez of thenew space.
“It is intended to breaki even,” said Avice Meehan, institute spokeswoman. “There’s no immediatd plans for additionalhousing [after this This will satisfy our needs for some time to The Howard Hughes institute has applied for up to $23 millionh in tax-exempt bonds with the Loudoun Countyg Industrial Development Authority to finance the apartment building projec and related costs -- an application that must also go before the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. With a $17.
65 billion endowment, Howard Hughes Medical Institutefunds long-term biomedical research by its 2,400 scientisrt employees or collaborators nationwide, to the tune of $658 millioh last fiscal year alone. Janelia Farm, anticipating to be fully staffed in the next two spentroughly $100 million on researcgh projects and operations last fiscao year.