It’s interesting how San Diego is positioning itself as the country’s greatest biotech corridor:
San Diego is in the midst of yet another big building boom…which involves some of the city’s biggest interconnected industries — science, medicine, biotechnology and engineering.
At least nine major structures are nearing completion, under way, or soon to start. The projects will cost at least $785 million to build, and will provide the region with about 1.1 million square feet of research, office, manufacturing and conference space.
“We went through a long period of consolidation (in biotech), but now the vacant space is pretty much filling up,” said Joseph Panetta, president of Biocom, an industry trade group. “We’re beginning to see an investment in facilities, and a willingness to growth these industries.”
The focus of each building:
- Biopharmaceuticals
- Innovative therapeutics
- Biomedical research
- Genomic research
- Structural and materials engineering
- Clinical and translational research
- Planetarium
- Ocean research
- Marine ecosystem sensing
More details at UT San Diego