{"id":1004148434,"date":"2016-07-20T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T07:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004148434"},"modified":"2021-05-15T08:11:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T16:11:45","slug":"merck-expands-in-metro-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/merck-expands-in-metro-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Merck KGaA Expands in Metro Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Scott Baltic, Contributing Editor<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004148435\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/389762.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004148435\" data-attachment-id=\"1004148435\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/merck-expands-in-metro-boston\/merck-burlington-campus-rendering\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/389762.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"751,260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;PR NEWSWIRE&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Merck&#039;s new, $115 million Burlington, Massachusetts campus, slated to open in 2017, will serve as a major life science hub for Merck, Darmstadt, Germany with a state-of-the art lab for customer collaboration (PRNewsFoto\/Merck)&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Merck Burlington Campus Rendering&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Merck Burlington Campus Rendering\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Merck&#8217;s new, $115 million Burlington, Massachusetts campus&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/389762.jpeg?w=751\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1004148435 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/389762.jpeg\" alt=\"Rendering of Merck's new Burlington, Mass., campus\" width=\"300\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/389762.jpeg 751w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/389762.jpeg?resize=300,104 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004148435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rendering of Merck KGaA&#8217;s new Burlington, Mass., campus<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Boston<\/strong>\u2014Global technology company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merckgroup.com\/en\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Merck KGaA<\/a>, of Darmstadt, Germany, will build a new 30-acre campus near Routes 3 and 128 in Burlington, Mass., that will serve as a hub for its North American life science business, the company announced Tuesday. The $115 million, five-story, 280,000-square-foot, LEED-certified building will include a customer collaboration laboratory, training center and office space. The project also includes an option to add a further 70,000 square feet later.<\/p>\n<p>The project is to be built by the Gutierrez Co. of metro Boston, which will lease the property to Merck KGaA. Gutierrez did not respond to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commercial Property Executive<\/a><\/em>\u2019s request for additional information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new and more expansive Merck campus gives us a unique, multi-use life science hub in the United States, one that provides our employees and customers with a sustainable and collaborative working environment,\u201d Udit Batra, member of the Merck KGaA executive board &amp; CEO of the company&#8217;s life science business, said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n<p>The campus is intended to serve as \u201ca premier global customer destination,\u201d as it will house both a customer service and call center and an M Lab Collaboration Center\u2014a state-of-the-art, shared environment where Merck KGaA scientists and engineers work together with customers to tackle life science challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The M Lab will be one of nine such centers worldwide; the others will be in Brazil, China, France, India, Singapore and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The enhanced M Lab center in Burlington will replace the M Lab at the company\u2019s Billerica, Mass., facility. The company\u2019s 850 full-time life science employees in Billerica will relocate to the new campus when construction there is complete in the second half of 2017. Merck KGaA will maintain its other North American life science hub, in St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>The Billerica sites are leased and will be vacated after the Burlington project opens, a spokesperson for Merck KGaA unit MilliporeSigma told <em>CPE<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(The company does not use the Merck name in the U.S. and Canada, where that name is used by American pharma company Merck &amp; Co., aka Merck Sharp and Dohme or MSD, which has been independent since 1917.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German company is building a $115 million life science campus in Burlington, Mass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":1004148435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,21782,21808,21754,21752,21742,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004148434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boston","category-development","category-featured","category-medical-office","category-mixed-use","category-latest","category-northeast"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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