BOSTON– Boston Properties, Inc. (NYSE: BXP), the largest publicly-traded developer, owner and manager of Class A office properties in the United States, announced a 138,000 square-foot, 10-year lease with Translate Bio, a clinical-stage messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics company, at 200 West Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. BXP is currently redeveloping 200 West Street into lab space with expected completion in 2021. With this lease, the property is 100% leased.
“We are thrilled that 200 West Street will be home to Translate Bio’s team of passionate professionals,” said David Provost, SVP of Development, co-head of BXP Life Sciences. “Translate Bio’s selection underscores our commitment to providing biotech customers the most flexible, modern and creative work environments to discover and develop therapies that increase wellness and improve lives. Their move to Waltham will facilitate the recruitment and retention of the best and brightest talent in this growing hub for life science.”
200 West Street features a full service café, on-site fitness and conference facilities, and easy access to the highly skilled workforce in Waltham and surrounding towns, as well as the ability for future expansion by approximately 130,000 square feet of additional developable life science space. The redevelopment features a variety of modern lab spaces, including cold rooms and pilot labs, as well as chemistry and biology labs. Located in Waltham, Massachusetts, a popular submarket of Boston for leading and emerging companies in the life sciences, biotechnology and technology sectors, the 200 West Street conversion to lab space builds on Boston Properties’ 4.3 million square feet of Class A commercial space in Boston’s largest urban edge submarket.
BXP Life Sciences develops, manages and operates commercial properties for the life sciences sector. As part of Boston Properties, BXP Life Sciences has developed and managed millions of square feet of office and lab properties for the life sciences sector for more than forty years, primarily in the leading innovation markets of Boston-Cambridge and suburban Massachusetts and San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. Focused on the specific needs of the life sciences industry, today BXP Life Sciences consists of an existing portfolio of 3.3 million square feet of properties leased by established and emerging biotechnology, healthcare and medical device companies, and approximately six million square feet of redevelopment and future development opportunities.
