SmartLabs, an operator of life sciences labs, vivarium and manufacturing spaces, has leased two floors totaling 117,000 square feet at a proposed new building in University City. Philadelphia will serve as the third city SmartLabs will have a presence, underscoring the strength of the city’s burgeoning life sciences scene. SmartLabs maintains a presence in Boston… Read more »
Century Therapeutics Inc. has expanded the amount of space it will occupy at One uCity Square to 90,000 square feet. The fast-growing company initially signed in 2020 to take a single floor totaling 32,500 square feet in the building in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia. Century will now occupy space across the top three floors of… Read more »
University City Science Center Board Chairman Mike DiPiano draws a parallel between his organization and Motown. Before the storied music label could start pumping out chart-topping hits, founder Berry Gordy had to build out a physical space to house offices and recording studios. Since its founding in 1963, the Science Center has worked to establish a similar… Read more »
One of the Philadelphia region’s oldest biotechnology companies is doubling its footprint, and its workforce, in the city. Integral Molecular began construction this week on its new 50,000-square scientific and operational headquarters at One uCity Square that will allow the company to expand to 200 employees over the next few years. Founded in 2001, Integral… Read more »
A partnership involving the University City Science Center has sold 3440 Market St., a 118,000-square-foot building in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, for $45 million. Ventas Inc., a Chicago real estate investment trust that is partnering with Wexford Science & Technology and the Science Center on the development of uCity Square, bought 3440 Market…. Read more »
Gwynedd Mercy University has sold 150 acres for $31.5 million to Beacon Capital Partners, a Boston real estate investment firm that intends to use the property to expand its life sciences footprint in the Philadelphia suburbs. Beacon already has a presence roughly two miles down the road from the university at Spring House Innovation Park,… Read more »
Sterling Bay, Harrison Street and Botanic Properties have entered into a joint venture to buy a 33,400-square-foot land parcel in Philadelphia’s University City neighborhood to develop a 13-story life science facility. The life science facility at 3801 Chestnut St. is set to total 310,000 square feet and feature modern lab space to support the growing needs of… Read more »
Sterling Bay, Harrison Street and Botanic Properties have entered into a joint venture to buy a 33,400-square-foot land parcel in Philadelphia’s University City neighborhood to develop a 13-story life science facility. The life science facility at 3801 Chestnut St. is set to total 310,000 square feet and feature modern lab space to support the growing needs of… Read more »
Real estate companies that focus on developing lab and manufacturing space for life sciences companies are circling 3900 Market St., the site of University City Townhomes, an affordable housing complex that was put up for sale. A bidding process for the property, the size of a city block, is being overseen by a commercial real… Read more »
Stoltz Management, a Bala Cynwyd real estate company, has put up for sale 2300 Chestnut St., a Center City office building that could sell for an estimated $40 million. Stoltz bought the 103,905-square-foot office building in 2017 for $28.75 million and invested in upgrades to the lobby and elsewhere. The building is 77% leased to… Read more »
