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The plans call for the Chevgy Chase nonprofit institute to build new temporarh campus housing for graduate postdoctoral researchers and visiting scientists near the main entranc of its first standalone research a 689-acre expanse that opened three years ago as the first of its kind in Northern The project, entailing 60 new one-bedroom apartments, is meant to help the research institutd attract more scientific talent from around the world to its 240-strong staff. “Graduats students and post docs are with us for a relatively short period of time and they place a high value on livinyg close totheir laboratories,” said Gerry Janelia Farm’s director.
This marks the first major expansion forJanelia Farm, touted as a $500 millio n biomedical crown jewel for Northern Virginia, and a rare constructiomn project in an otherwise gloomy commercial real estatre market hit hard by the WDG Architecture of Washington, D.C., is helping design the new 80,000-square-footr building, which will boast the same curvex shape as the campus’ flagship, glass-walled research Ashburn-based Dietze Construction Group will oversede construction, expected to begin this Labor Day weekend and be completd in a year’s time.
The four-story building will includ e a ground floor with common areas and covered parkinh for61 cars, all toppede by three residential floors. Each incorporating natural lightand loft-likd configurations, will contain 20 one-bedroom apartments, most including an additiona den. They will join Janeliwa Farm’s housing village, alread y composed of 21 studioz and32 multi-bedroom apartments and by now fully occupiedr by visiting staffers. The institute will chargw the short-term residents rent to help cover monthly expenseas of thenew space. “It is intended to break said Avice Meehan, institute spokeswoman.
“There’s no immediate plans for additionalhousing [afterr this project]. This will satisfy our needs for some time to The Howard Hughes institute has appliec for upto $23 million in tax-exempt bonds with the Loudoubn County Industrial Development Authorit to finance the apartment building project and relater costs -- an application that must also go beforew the Loudoun County Board of With a $17.5 billionh endowment, Howard Hughes Medical Institute funds long-term biomedicakl research by its 2,400 scientist employees or collaborators nationwide, to the tune of $658 million last fiscal year alone.
Janelia Farm, anticipating to be fullu staffed in the next two spentroughly $100 million on research projects and operations last fisca year.