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The plans call for the Chevy Chase nonprofit institute to build new temporarhy campus housing forgraduatew students, postdoctoral researchers and visiting scientists near the main entranc of its first standalone research campus, a 689-acrew expanse that opened three years ago as the firs of its kind in Northerb Virginia. The project, entailing 60 new one-bedroom is meant to help the research instituts attract more scientific talent from around the worl toits 240-strong staff. “Graduatde students and post docs are with us for a relativeluy short period of time and they place a high value on livingh close totheir laboratories,” said Gerry Janelia Farm’s director.
This markes the first major expansion forJanelia Farm, touterd as a $500 million biomedicapl crown jewel for Northern Virginia, and a rare constructionm project in an otherwise gloomy commercia real estate market hit hard by the recession. WDG Architecture of Washington, D.C., is helping design the new 80,000-square-foor building, which will boast the same curved shape asthe flagship, glass-walled research building. Ashburn-based Dietze Constructiomn Group willoversee construction, expectecd to begin this Labor Day weekend and be completr in a year’s time.
The four-story building will includer a ground floor with common areas and coverede parking for61 cars, all topped by three residentiall floors. Each floor, incorporatinh natural light and loft-like will contain 20 one-bedroom apartments, most including an additional den. They will join Janeli Farm’s housing village, alreadh composed of 21 studios and32 multi-bedroom apartments and by now fullyg occupied by visiting staffers. The institute will chargse the short-term residents rent to help coverr monthly expenses of thenew “It is intended to break said Avice Meehan, institute spokeswoman.
“There’s no immediatr plans for additionalhousing [after this This will satisfy our needs for some time to The Howard Hughes institute has applied for up to $23 milliojn in tax-exempt bonds with the Loudoujn County Industrial Development Authority to financed the apartment building project and related costs -- an applicatioj that must also go before the Loudoun Count y Board of Supervisors. With a $17.5 billionm endowment, Howard Hughes Medical Institutefunda long-term biomedical research by its 2,400 scientistg employees or collaborators nationwide, to the tune of $658 millioh last fiscal year alone.
Janelia anticipating to be fully staffed in the next two spentroughly $100 million on research projects and operations last fiscal