The University of Pennsylvania's Pennovation Center will
move ahead and its design was approved by the school's board.
The plan calls for renovating an existing three-story,
58,000-square-foot industrial building that will become the cornerstone to
Pennovation Works, a 23-acre hub for innovation, research and
entrepreneurialism along the southern bank of the Schuylkill River and next to
Penn's main campus. The design was done by HWKN of New York.
This first phase will cost $37.5 million and is part of a
bigger vision that Penn has for the site, which was the former Marshall Labs.
At one point, Penn called the property South Bank.
It has big ambitions for the site.
"The Pennovation Center design creates a truly
iconic landmark for Penn's innovation ecosystem and a dynamic hub for Penn's
culture of innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration," said Penn
President Amy Gutmann in a statement.
The design gives "a nod" to the start-ups that
formed in personal garages and includes a series of garage doors on the eastern
façade that open directly into studio spaces. The building will include
co-working space, wet and dry labs, among other spaces for collaboration and
look to become a resource to the community. Penn Engineering Field Research
Center will take up the third floor.
KSS Architects is the architect of record and Land
Collective is the landscape architect. The Pennovation Center and the first
phase of Pennovation Works, which includes site work, is expected to be
completed by the summer of 2016.
Source: Philadelphia
Business Journal
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