Expanding the Physical Network, Boston, Cambridge & Seaport

By 2017, Mass Innovation Labs had outgrown its original Kendall Square location, and with it, the traditional idea of what a "shared lab" could be. That year we announced the simultaneous development of three new facilities across Greater Boston:

• Our Cambridge 21 Erie Street expansion with BioMed Realty.
• The Boston Landing life-sciences complex in Brighton.
• And Innovation Square in the Seaport, Boston's first purpose-built life-sciences campus.

Together, these sites formed the first complete expression of what became our modular, operational, and regulatory framework, designed to let scientists move between locations as easily as between experiments. Real-estate and business press treated the announcement as a defining moment for the region's R&D infrastructure: we weren't just adding square footage, we were establishing a scalable blueprint for science itself.