Alexandria Real Estate Equities celebrated the grand opening of the Alexandria Center for Advanced Technologies at The Woodlands, a multitenant campus at 8800 Technology Forest Place in the Greater Houston life sciences cluster.
The campus is home to the first purpose-built, cost-effective class A laboratory infrastructure in The Woodlands in Greater Houston. Alexandria's cluster model, informed by Harvard Business Professor Michael Porter's cluster theory, consists of the four critical drivers needed to create a thriving life sciences cluster: location, innovation, talent and capital. The company is bringing its commercial Labspace real estate together with scientific innovation, a growing STEM talent pool and strategic risk capital in The Woodlands.
The campus features move-in-ready laboratory space and adjacent nontechnical space, as well as laboratory support services. The campus's first building is a 123,392-square-foot LEED Gold Core & Shell and Fitwel-certif