The new 12-acre building, with striking curved-glass exteriors and light-filled laboratory neighborhoods, adds more than 625,000 square feet of research space to the Chicago academic medical campus.
The building is designed for a future expansion that can more than double its size vertically, with up to 16 new floors in the second phase of construction. The new facility will enable Northwestern to increase its sponsored research funding by $150 million annually or $1.5 billion in the next 10 years. It will also create 2,000 new high-paying, full-time jobs in the new space and is expected to generate an additional $390 million a year in economic activity in Chicago. In the building’s first phase, it created more than 2,500 construction jobs.
