IT ALL STARTS HERE HARVARD’S EXPANDING CAMPUS IN ALLSTON THEWESTERN SCIENCE AVE AND ENGINEERINGINNOVATION CORRIDOR COMPLEX CHARLES RIVER RIVER HOUSES HARVARD STADIUM HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL 3 5 4 2 7 9 NORTH HARVARD STREET WESTERN AVENUE INNOVATION CORRIDOR 6 1 8 ALLSTON GREENWAY 10 11 1. SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING COMPLEX 6. HARVARD PAULSON SCHOOL ACADEMIC BUILDING (opening 2020) 7. CONTINUUM (RESIDENCES AND RETAIL) 2. GATEWAY PROJECT AND FUTURE ACADEMIC 8. HARVARD ED PORTAL AND CERAMICS STUDIO QUADRANGLE (planned) 9. HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER (planned) 3. ARTLAB (opening 2019) 10. ENTERPRISE RESEARCH CAMPUS (in yellow, planned) 4. PAGLIUCA HARVARD LIFE LAB 11. WEST STATION (planned) 5. I-LAB HARVARD IN ALLSTON: CREATING A CAMPUS FOR THE NEXT CENTURY IN THE BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD OF ALLSTON, directly across the Charles River from Cambridge, Harvard has an opportunity that is rare for modern universities: acres of undeveloped, contiguous land ready for a custom-built campus. Here, Harvard is developing an academically diverse neighborhood with ambitious long-term plans to transform an already lively community into a thriving center for science, the arts, entrepreneurship, and discovery. The transformation is well under way. Harvard has begun new construction and completed renovations at Harvard Business School; opened a mixed-use residential and retail commons; created the i-lab, Launch Lab, and Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab to incubate start-up ventures; updated athletics facilities; and secured Boston’s approval of plans for an enterprise research campus to connect with industry partners. The expanding campus in Allston will also bridge Harvard’s activities in Cambridge and the Longwood Medical Area and enrich the collaborative research and entrepreneurial activity across the Boston metropolitan area. When it opens in 2020, the Science and Engineering Complex, which runs along Allston’s main street of Western Avenue, will be a critical anchor for the neighborhood and home to the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, drawing more than 1,800 faculty, researchers, and students. Harvard is poised to transform the intellectual and physical landscape of its campus, and the expansion into Allston will define the University’s legacy this century. THE WESTERN AVENUE INNOVATION CORRIDOR: AN ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM HARVARD’S PLANS WILL BUILD on current activity in the neighborhood and create new resources for education, entrepreneurship, community, and industry. The result will be an intellectually vibrant area, sustainably developed, with modern amenities and a vibrant civic life. ACADEMICS The Science and Engineering Complex is ATHLETICS More than 1,000 undergraduate student- the new home for most of the Harvard John A. Paulson athletes use the Allston athletics facilities. Major School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, which will renovations to the Bright-Landry Hockey Center become Harvard Business School’s newest neighbor and the Gordon Track have already been completed. when the Complex opens in 2020. Robotics, materials Renovations to Harvard Stadium are in the University’s science, mechanical engineering, bioengineering, long-term plan. computer science, and electrical engineering will occupy the new facility—more than 1,800 students, INDUSTRY Harvard has set aside more than 36 acres faculty, and researchers in total. to develop an Enterprise Research Campus that will connect student, faculty, and alumni ideas to industry. COMMUNITY At the Harvard Ed Portal and the Harvard Here, established companies and start-ups alike Ceramics Studio, faculty and students engage the will make new homes alongside the classrooms and Allston community of nearly 30,000 residents through laboratories driving Harvard’s cutting-edge research. public programming. Public art, including murals along Western Avenue, has brightened the civic space and is a CONNECTIVITY A range of improvements will enhance signal of activity to come. A planned Greenway will add the area’s transportation infrastructure. New streets a string of public parks throughout the neighborhood. and pathways will connect the campus northeast Harvard has also built a new residential and retail to Cambridge and south to areas such as Boston commons, and new neighborhood restaurants and University and the Longwood Medical Area. A planned stores continue to open. public transit station—West Station—located a half mile from the Science and Engineering Complex, will THE ARTS The ArtLab, which opens early 2019, will join with the regional rail and bus networks. University provide flexible, modular, and open art-making spaces. shuttle services have already been expanded and made The ArtLab will host visiting artists, with feature public available to neighborhood residents. The area’s bike exhibition spaces and resources to support a variety of network will be enhanced, with bike- and car-sharing creative activities. services available as well. INNOVATION Western Avenue is the home of Harvard’s SUSTAINABILITY The entire project reclaims many Innovation Labs—the i-lab, the Launch Lab, the Pagliuca acres of former industrial land, which Harvard has Harvard Life Lab—that provide students, faculty, and rehabilitated. A 10-acre Greenway forms the spine of alumni with resources, support, and office space to the first phase of development. In addition to providing incubate start-up ventures in technology, medicine, pleasant open space for residents and visitors, the and more. The Innovation Labs have hosted more than Greenway is designed to help the neighborhood adapt 230,000 visits and staged more than 4,300 events to climate change and will carry storm water and since they opened in 2011. infrastructure across the campus. THE WESTERN AVENUE INNOVATION CORRIDOR: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TOPPING OFF THE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING COMPLEX: Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the Harvard community, the Turner Construction team, Allston residents, and local representatives gathered on November 29, 2017, for a “topping-off” ceremony to mark the occasion of the last steel beam going into place. HANDS-ON MAKING: The ArtLab—a new hub for arts innovation on North Harvard Street in Allston—will feature spaces that allow faculty, students, and artists to cross media and academic boundaries and explore possibilities in sensory experience and social cognition. The lab, opening in early 2019, will host exhibitions and performances, bringing together Harvard and the community. “WE ALL” INSTALLATION: The Harvard Graduate School of Design announced an inaugural design-build competition for an installation at The Grove, located at the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue in Allston. Student teams conducted community surveys to gain insight into how neighbors and visitors engage with the site. The chosen design, “We All,” is a vibrantly colored wall comprised of a mix of colored PVC pipes and transparent Plexiglas tubes that illuminate at night to create a festive atmosphere. THE WESTERN AVENUE INNOVATION CORRIDOR: INSIDE A WORLD-RENOWNED SCIENCE HUB Situated in the largest life sciences hub in the world, the Allston neighborhood will be anchored by both established University entities and new additions. Proximity to research partners at MIT, Boston University, Tufts, and other research institutions, in addition to emerging partnerships with industry, will lead to the companies, solutions, and products that will improve lives across the globe. • Harvard has more than 11,000 medical faculty at 15 affiliated hospitals and research centers, which collectively treat 2.6 million patients annually • There are more than 250 biotech companies in Greater Boston and more than four dozen colleges and universities • Researchers in Boston and Cambridge alone received more than $2 billion in funding from the National Institutes of Health in 2016 • Massachusetts biotech and life sciences companies raised $3.3 billion in venture investment in 2016. • The U.S. Chamber of Commerce ranked Boston #1 on its list of top start-up cities • More than 11 million square feet of commercial lab space has been added to Massachusetts in the last ten years, an increase of 68 percent Regional Density of Technology and Medical Research Harvard in Cambridge 1 mile 2 miles 3 miles 4 miles Kendall Harvard in Square Allston MGH MIT Boston University Seaport Innovation District Harvard in the Longwood Medical Area BU Medical Center The expanded campus in Allston is within two miles of the Longwood Medical Area, MIT, and Kendall Square, and within four miles of Boston’s Innovation District. THE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING COMPLEX NAMED FOR A GIFT OF $150 MILLION AS A NEW FLAGSHIP BUILDING for science and engineering and the anchor for the expanding campus, the 500,000-square-foot Science and Engineering Complex will house scientists, researchers, students, and staff from the Harvard Paulson School, who are currently spread across more than a dozen buildings and laboratories in Cambridge. By bringing them together in one custom-built facility, the Complex will enable new collaborations and discoveries. Designed by award-winning architect Stefan Behnisch, the Complex will span eight floors connected vertically by the Atrium. The lower floors will be focused on students, with active-learning classrooms, dry and wet teaching laboratories, design studios, maker space, café, library, and plenty of collaboration spaces. The upper floors will be dedicated to research and will house advanced core facilities and large,