Facilities
The Broad Institute's facilities at 320 Charles Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, house one of the largest genome sequencing centers in the world. As WICGR (Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research), this facility was the largest contributor of sequence information to the Human Genome Project.
In February 2006, The Broad Institute expanded to a new building at 7 Cambridge Center, adjacent to the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. This seven-story 231,000-square-foot (21,500 m2) building contains office, research laboratory, retail and museum space. In 2010, the Broad expanded into a further 80,000 sq ft (7,400 m2). at 301 Binney St. In 2011 the Institute announced plans to construct an additional tower adjacent to the 7 Cambridge Center site at 75 Ames St. The proposed tower would include 12 stories of research space and would consolidate other research from the 320 Charles, 5 Cambridge Center, and 301 Binney sites when those leases expire in 2014. The general design was approved as part of a district rezoning decision made by the Cambridge City Council in August, 2010.
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