Part of the initial 19-acre phase of developer JBG Smith’s mixed-use development in North Potomac Yard, the first academic building of Virginia Tech’s Washington, D.C.-area Innovation Campus, officially got underway earlier this month with a ceremonial groundbreaking in Alexandria, Va.
The 300,000-sq-ft building is located just south of Amazon’s HQ2 complex at National Landing. To be built on a 3.5-acre campus by construction manager at-risk Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. Inc., the $300-million project calls for an 11-story gem-shaped building containing instruction, research, office and support spaces for graduate-level programs in computer science and computer engineering, as well as select other programs. Flexible multipurpose areas, state-of-the-art research and testing labs will be included as well. The program also calls for underground parking.