$60M Bioscience Center To Be Built at Brooklyn Army Terminal
Construction on a new $60 million commercial bioscience center (BioBAT) at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn is scheduled to begin later this year through a partnership between the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. The 486,000-sq- ft BioBAt project is expected to create more than 1,000 permanent jobs.
BioBAT is being designed by HOK of St. Louis, Mo. with construction on the first 56,000 sq ft of space scheduled to begin this year and completion expected in 2011. Upon completion of build-out, BioBAT will offer spaces ranging from 5,000 sq ft to more than 10,000 sq ft for research, laboratory and bio-manufacturing uses. So far, tenants include the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative which already has occupied space at the Brooklyn Army Terminal since November 2008 and Terminal, Apath LLC, currently a tenant at the SUNY Downstate Incubator in central Brooklyn has announced its intention to expand and relocate to BioBAT.