Swiss Innovation Park Basel Area continues to grow
The area of the Main Campus of the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area, which opened a year ago, is more than doubling in size. By 2028, the innovation park in Allschwil will grow in stages from its current 50,000 m2 to around 115,000 m2. This will make the Main Campus of the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area the largest life sciences-focused area of an innovation park in Switzerland. The private investor Senn Resources AG is investing around 350 million Swiss francs in the four new buildings that will form part of the Main Campus site.
The four new buildings, which will be constructed in the coming years and integrated into the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area in Allschwil, will form the Main Campus site together with the existing main building. Investor and developer Senn Resources AG is responsible for the realization. The St. Gallen-based company already developed and realized the Main Campus main building, which was opened by Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin a year ago. Like the main building, three of the four new buildings are also being designed by Herzog & de Meuron. The radically sustainable HORTUS office building is already under construction (move in 2025). The laboratory and office hybrid buildings ALL (2026) and CLOUD (2028) are in the planning stage. Senn is building the public-oriented HOPE building, which was developed together with Swiss TPH, with Basel architects Felippi Wyssen, who won the anonymous competition.
The expansion of the Main Campus is being carried out in cooperation with Senn Resources AG and the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area. "It is extremely gratifying that the partnership of a public and private institution is enabling the establishment of an innovation district of this size," says Raymond Cron, Managing Director of the national umbrella organization Switzerland Innovation, "This not only further enhances the importance of Basel as a life sciences location, but also of the Switzerland-wide network of Switzerland Innovation's six parks."
From 2028, the Main Campus of the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area will be more than twice as large as it is today and offer significantly more workspaces. The innovation park will grow from the 50,000 m2 of usable space currently offered by the Main Campus to around 115,000 m2. This will make Allschwil by far the largest area of a Swiss innovation park dedicated to life sciences. Christof Klöpper, CEO of Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area, says: "I am very pleased that we were able to build the innovation park for the benefit of the entire region thanks to the support of the cantons of Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt and Jura and that we can now realize this expansion without additional cantonal funding. With Senn, a private partner is making a major contribution to attracting innovative companies to the region and supporting the objectives of Switzerland Innovation."
With the US pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson moving in, the main building is almost fully occupied just one year after opening. The other sites in the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area are also thriving: the Novartis Campus site has already completed its third expansion phase. It now extends over three floors. The Jura site has also already been extended by one floor. Occupancy is steadily increasing and only a few offices are still available.
Source: www.baselarea.swiss
