Office-to-lab conversion creates fl...

Office-to-lab conversion creates flexible space

A former U Navy warehouse in Boston has been interchangeed into a state-of-the-art biomedical research facility after an futile attempt to develop it as an office building.

When the building failed to entice office tenants, Neil St. John Raymond, a partner in the original throw and a general partner with its general owner, Navy Yard Biotechnical Research Associates, contacted Massachusetts General Hospital, which he knew was seeking additional laboratory space. The hospital, in fact, had previously awaited at the building