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Real Estate Biomedical Research

Altria Center for Research and Technology

Richmond, VA

When building a state-of-the-art research center consisting of the largest single private sector investment in the city, you want the best team behind you. Altria turned to VHB to manage a complex entitlement process, rezoning, and site design for this new center within Richmond’s rapidly growing biotechnology district. Our understanding of the development process in Richmond and relationships with key stakeholders empowered us to develop a creative approach to securing Planned Unit Development approvals. This meant that we could keep the project moving under a tight timeline and meet an aggressive 21-month construction and occupancy schedule. The Center is now home and inspiration to researchers and scientists who are developing innovative technologies to improve Altria’s products.

A pedestrian walkway connects to Altria’s Center for Research and Technology in Richmond, Virginia.

Client

  • Philip Morris USA

Services

  • Civil Engineering

  • Construction Monitoring

  • Highway/Roadway Design & Engineering

  • Land Survey

  • Stormwater Design & Engineering

  • Urban Design & Planning

  • Utilities Design

Representative Projects

Aerial view of the former Fort Devens Military Base

Fort Devens Reuse Plan Devens, MA

Rendering of pedestrians and cyclists traveling through the research and technology park

Alewife Park Cambridge, MA

Rendering of a Class A speculative lab building with an active streetscape.

Boynton Yards Somerville, MA

A visitor walks along a shaded path into one of the buildings in University Park.

University Park Cambridge, MA

A jogger runs past Takeda’s new facility at 300 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge.

Takeda | 300 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA

The Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research is seen from across Massachusetts Avenue. A view of the gateway into the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research at dusk.

Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research Cambridge, MA

The curved glass wall office building at 300 Binney Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts is pictured at dusk.

Biogen | 300 Binney Street Cambridge, MA

Astra-Zeneca’s multi-building campus is backed by natural woodlands.

AstraZeneca Waltham and Weston, MA

Twilight view of main entrance to LifeNet Health headquarters building.

LifeNet Health Global Headquarters Virginia Beach, VA

Street view of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Broad Institute Cambridge, MA

Entrance to The Center for Life Science in Boston, Massachusetts.

Center for Life Science Boston, MA

Bristol-Myers-Squibb facility in Devens, Massachusetts.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Biologics Manufacturing Campus Devens, MA

Water fountain at the Pfizer campus in Andover, Massachusetts.

Pfizer Andover, MA

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