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Biomedical Research

Takeda | 300 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

300 Massachusetts Avenue was designed to accommodate Takeda’s expansion plans and its intensive research program. With a long-standing relationship with Forest City, our history at University Park, and our experience with the City of Cambridge development process, VHB was able to hit the ground running to assist with the rezoning of this parcel, which made this development feasible. Our transportation analysis alleviated concerns that additional parking would be required for the expansion. We then developed a creative approach that allowed our team to run multiple tasks concurrently, which enabled the client to meet critical deadlines and advance the development to the permitting phase. 300 Massachusetts Avenue has revived an underused section of Massachusetts Avenue and enriched the innovation district with new research space.

A jogger runs past Takeda’s new facility at 300 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. People walk along the sidewalk plantings next to Takeda’s facility at 300 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. A cyclist rides past the entry to Takeda’s building at 300 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge.

Clients

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Forest City

Services

  • Environmental Impact Statement

  • Transportation Planning & Engineering

  • Zoning Analysis

Representative Projects

Aerial view of the former Fort Devens Military Base

Fort Devens Reuse Plan Devens, MA

Rendering of pedestrians and cyclists traveling through the research and technology park

Alewife Park Cambridge, MA

Rendering of a Class A speculative lab building with an active streetscape.

Boynton Yards Somerville, MA

A visitor walks along a shaded path into one of the buildings in University Park.

University Park Cambridge, MA

The Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research is seen from across Massachusetts Avenue. A view of the gateway into the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research at dusk.

Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research Cambridge, MA

The curved glass wall office building at 300 Binney Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts is pictured at dusk.

Biogen | 300 Binney Street Cambridge, MA

Astra-Zeneca’s multi-building campus is backed by natural woodlands.

AstraZeneca Waltham and Weston, MA

Twilight view of main entrance to LifeNet Health headquarters building.

LifeNet Health Global Headquarters Virginia Beach, VA

A pedestrian walkway connects to Altria’s Center for Research and Technology in Richmond, Virginia.

Altria Center for Research and Technology Richmond, VA

Street view of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Broad Institute Cambridge, MA

Entrance to The Center for Life Science in Boston, Massachusetts.

Center for Life Science Boston, MA

Bristol-Myers-Squibb facility in Devens, Massachusetts.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Biologics Manufacturing Campus Devens, MA

Water fountain at the Pfizer campus in Andover, Massachusetts.

Pfizer Andover, MA

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