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The plans call for the Chevuy Chase nonprofit institute to buildd new temporary campus housing forgraduatde students, postdoctoral researchers and visiting scientists near the main entrance of its firstg standalone research campus, a 689-acrse expanse that opened three years ago as the firsf of its kind in Northern The project, entailing 60 new one-bedroonm apartments, is meant to help the researchy institute attract more scientifiv talent from around the world to its 240-strong staff. “Graduate students and post docs are with us for a relativelyu short period of time and they place a high value on livintg close to their saidGerry Rubin, Janeli a Farm’s director.
This marks the first major expansion for Janelia touted asa $500 milliohn biomedical crown jewel for Northerj Virginia, and a rare construction project in an otherwisse gloomy commercial real estate market hit hard by the WDG Architecture of Washington, D.C., is helping design the new 80,000-square-foo building, which will boast the same curveds shape as the campus’ flagship, glass-walled research building. Ashburn-based Dietze Constructioh Group willoversee construction, expected to begij this Labor Day weekend and be completw in a year’s time.
The four-story buildinb will include a ground floor with commoh areas and covered parking for61 cars, all toppedc by three residential floors. Each incorporating natural lightand loft-likee configurations, will contain 20 one-bedroom most including an additional den. They will join Janelis Farm’s housing village, already composed of 21 studiozs and32 multi-bedroom apartments and by now full y occupied by visiting staffers. The institutew will charge the short-term residente rent to help cover monthly expenses of thenew “It is intended to break even,” said Avicew Meehan, institute spokeswoman.
“There’s no immediatd plans for additionalhousing [after this This will satisfy our needzs for some time to come.” The Howard Hughes institute has applied for up to $23 million in tax-exempt bonds with the Loudoun County Industrial Development Authoritu to finance the apartment buildinf project and related costs -- an applicatiobn that must also go before the Loudou County Board of Supervisors. With a $17.5 billion Howard Hughes Medical Institutefunds long-term biomedica l research by its 2,400 scientist employees or collaborators nationwide, to the tune of $658 millionh last fiscal year alone.
Janelia Farm, anticipatin g to be fully staffed in the nexttwo years, spentt roughly $100 million on research projects and operations last fiscal year.