Lawrence Berkeley Lab reveals what it wants in its second campus

San Francisco Business Times - by Lindsay Riddell
Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 12:41pm PST -

Lawrence Berkeley Lab late Monday laid out the details for a new second campus. It is looking to consolidate facilities like the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center in Oakland and the Life Sciences Division in West Berkeley.

The Lab estimates that by 2015, it will spend $15 million annually to lease space at those facilities. The lease at the Joint Bioenergy Institute expires in 2013. The idea is to put all of them in one large site that will initially house 800 employees.

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