Construction Starts on $80M Cancer Research Center

BALTIMORE-Work has gotten under way on Johns Hopkins University’s second cancer research facility on its East Baltimore medical campus. The new 270,000-sf structure, an $80 million project to be called Cancer Research Building II, will be a twin production of the first research structure that is now known as the Bunting-Blaustein Building. Clark Construction Group Inc. and Smoot Construction have joined forces as Clark/Smoot to spearhead the actual construction of the project. HDR Architecture is behind the design of CRB II, just as it was with the Blunting-Blaustein building.

CRB II will sit on Orleans St. next to the Blunting-Blaustein facility, which cost an estimated $60 million to develop four years ago. The new facility will be connected to its sister structure via a connector building enclosing a new loading dock and additional shared lab functions. Clark’s Elizabeth Tuico tells GlobeSt.com that the development endeavor is a two-year project and that approximately 110,000 sf of the 270,000-sf building will consist of lab space, while the remaining space will be dedicated to offices and mechanical space.