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:

1. Our Cambridge 21 Erie Street expansion with BioMed Realty.

2. The Boston Landing life-sciences complex in Brighton.

3. 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 the Universal Lab Framework — a modular, operational, and regulatory system 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, recognizing that we weren’t just adding square footage—we were establishing a scalable blueprint for science itself.

Read the full coverage →

• NEREJ – Mass Innovation Labs to Open at Boston Landing

• BioMed Realty Signs Mass Innovation Labs to 52 000 SF at 21 Erie Street

• BLDUP – Mass Innovation Labs Leases Space at Boston Landing’s Auerbach Center

• Related Beal Press Release – Partnership to Build Life-Sciences Facility

• City of Boston Newsroom – Mayor Breaks Ground on Innovation Square