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Update from Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera

April 2024

Georgia Tech’s Science Square is officially open for business. In partnership with Trammell Crow Company, the Institute celebrated the opening of Science Square’s first phase at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 25. Located near the corner of Northside Drive and North Avenue, Science Square is Atlanta’s first medical research and technology district. (Photo by Allison Carter)

Dear Friends:

Georgia Tech is committed to transforming medicine by developing breakthrough devices, diagnostics, and drugs to help healthcare providers fight the most complex and harmful diseases. This kind of medical innovation requires world-class research working side by side with startups and well-established companies that can translate our discoveries into products and place them in the hands of physicians and patients. 

That’s why we developed Science Square, Atlanta’s first medical research and technology district.

After breaking ground in August 2022 at the corner of Northside Drive and North Avenue, the first of five construction phases is officially open for business. Made possible by a powerful collaboration between Georgia Tech and Trammell Crow Company, Science Square represents one of the most exciting developments to come to Atlanta in recent years. To commemorate this milestone, Institute faculty and I joined representatives from our partners and our community at a ribbon-cutting ceremony last Thursday morning. Highlights of the first phase include the 13-story Science Square Labs building and The Grace Residences, an apartment community of 280 units. 

We built Science Square to fill a void. Atlanta boasts one of the nation’s highest concentrations of diverse tech talent, venture capital, and driven entrepreneurs, which has fueled our city’s extraordinary growth over the past few decades. We have world-class healthcare providers, and the biomedical engineering program we built with Emory University ranks among the best in the nation. Yet, we still see some of our most promising innovations in the life sciences and medical technology sectors go elsewhere. We built Science Square so those ideas — and the businesses they create — can stay here in our state, generate momentum and scale, and help us build a new global biotech hub. 

The centerpiece of Phase 1, Science Square Labs is a beautiful, state-of-the-art, 370,000-square-foot lab and office building specifically designed to accommodate highly specialized scientific work. The building comes equipped with sophisticated power, security, and ventilation systems, and it runs on advanced sustainability technology, including high-performance glass, a solar array, and an energy recovery system that together drastically reduce consumption, costs, and emissions.

This is just the beginning. Soon, Science Square will bustle with amenities, retail, recreation, and more housing as well, adding value to Atlanta’s westside. As we continue work on Science Square’s four remaining phases, we will grow a permanent home base for medical technology researchers and entrepreneurs — an entire neighborhood focused on driving medical innovation. 

The greatest advances in innovation tend to emerge from dense technological ecosystems — the right facilities in the right locations, powered by the best talent and a spirited culture of innovation. That’s what Science Square, Georgia Tech, and our many academic and healthcare partners in our state bring together. This new development will lead our region as an anchor, convener, and catalyst for medical research and technological development.
 

In Progress and Service,