WU School of Medicine Set to Break Ground on 138,000 Sq Ft McKinley Avenue Research Building

As we learned with the issue of a $1.5M building permit for a foundation earlier this month for 4515 McKinley, the Washington University Medical Center is set to grow yet again. The building will be the first new construction on the central medical campus since the 240,000 square foot, $235M BioMed 21 opened in 2010. We learned in March that BJC and Children's Hospital will completely remake the corner of Forest Park Avenue and Kingshighway. Further east, a BJC project is nearly completion in CORTEX (200,000 square feet), the 4240 Duncan building (190,000 square feet) is coming along and much more is coming soon.

The 138,000 square-foot, six-story McKinley research building is a $75M project and is set to be completed in 2015. According to a university press release, the building will house labs from the Department of Genetics, the Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology (the first BioMed 21 interdisciplinary center, established in 2004), the Department of Medicine and the Department of Developmental Biology. The building site is currently a surface parking lot and has been targeted for development since at least 2007 (see below).