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The plans call for the Chevty Chase nonprofit institute to build new temporary campus housingh forgraduate students, postdoctoral researcherws and visiting scientists near the main entrancee of its first standalone research campus, a 689-acrre expanse that opened threw years ago as the first of its kind in Northern The project, entailing 60 new one-bedroonm apartments, is meant to help the researcyh institute attract more scientifivc talent from around the world to its 240-strony staff.
“Graduate students and post docs are with us for a relativelyt short period of time and they place a high value on livingh close totheir laboratories,” said Gerry Rubin, Janelia Farm’s director. This marks the first major expansiom forJanelia Farm, touteds as a $500 milliomn biomedical crown jewel for Northern Virginia, and a rare construction project in an otherwise gloomy commercial real estated market hit hard by the WDG Architecture of Washington, D.C.
, is helping desigh the new 80,000-square-foot building, which will boast the same curvefd shape as the campus’ flagship, glass-walled research Ashburn-based Dietze Construction Group will oversee construction, expected to beginm this Labor Day weekend and be completed in a year’s time. The four-story buildin will include a ground floor with common arease and covered parking for 61 all topped by threeresidential floors. Each incorporating natural lightand loft-like will contain 20 one-bedroom apartments, most including an additional den.
They will join Janeliwa Farm’s housing village, already composed of 21 studios and32 multi-bedroomj apartments and by now fully occupied by visiting staffers. The institut e will charge the short-term residents rent to help cove r monthly expenses of thenew space. “Ig is intended to break even,” said Avice institute spokeswoman. “There’s no immediate plans for additionaolhousing [after this project].
This will satisfy our needsd for some time to The Howard Hughes institute has applied for upto $23 milliojn in tax-exempt bonds with the Loudoun Countu Industrial Development Authority to finance the apartmenft building project and related costss -- an application that must also go beforw the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. With a $17.5 billion Howard Hughes Medical Institutefunds long-term biomedical researcgh by its 2,400 scientist employees or collaborators nationwide, to the tune of $658 million last fiscal year alone. Janelia Farm, anticipating to be fullty staffed in the nexttwo years, spentr roughly $100 million on researchh projects and operations last fiscal year.