Lab Incubator Backs Out of Cambridge Mall Conversion
A life science incubator that would have replaced empty storefronts at the Cambridgeside property has dropped its plans for 140,000 square feet of turnkey research space for biotechs.
A life science incubator that would have replaced empty storefronts at the Cambridgeside property has dropped its plans for 140,000 square feet of turnkey research space for biotechs.
Under the direction of Clement Fourny, SmartLabs has begun transforming the top floor of former retail space at the CambridgeSide property into a new life science research center for a broad spectrum of startups.
SmartLabs will open its fifth and largest Greater Boston location at the Cambridgeside property as developers reposition the mall property for life science tenants.
Cambridge-based Foundation Medicine has signed the biggest commercial lease in Boston’s Seaport District in eight years, consolidating 1,100 employees at 400 Summer St. and giving new momentum to the neighborhood’s growing life science cluster.
A 3,500-seat concert hall and track-and-field facility with a 20,000-square-foot sports research lab are under construction at Boston Landing in Brighton.