June 11th, 2010 | by John Euill | published in M Square Research Park, NOAA Building, Speculation
The University of Maryland and Lockheed Martin Corp. last Friday announced a new partnership that would potentially help fill more research and office space at the M-Square research park. The Fortune 500 global security company and the university have ties that go back 60 years. Lockheed Martin has committed to spend $1 million dollars per [...]
June 2nd, 2010 | by Clay Gump | published in M Square Research Park
The Gazette is reporting on a new 5,000 square foot Food Safety lab to be in place in the Patapsco building by July of 2011. This is a joint venture with the Waters Corp. and the University. The Patapsco location is ideal for a lab such as this since it is directly next to the FDA [...]
November 20th, 2009 | by Clay Gump | published in Businesses, M Square Research Park, Speculation
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East Campus? Stalled. Purple Line? Still Waiting. Maryland Football? Don’t ask. Here at RTCP we could use a little good news. Well we got some from Washington Business Journal. It looks like M-Square was selected as the top choice in Prince George’s for a new cluster of biotech startups. The proposal calls for [...]
July 29th, 2009 | by Clay Gump | published in Businesses, East Campus, General College Park, M Square Research Park
On Friday July 17th the City hosted a Real Estate roundtable. Ann Wylie, the Vice President of Administrative Affairs, was the primary presenter. There were many Campus and Local officials present and based on the lack of empty seats interest was high. The second speaker was Chris Warren providing details of local economic activity. Here [...]
September 11th, 2008 | by Clay Gump | published in College Park Airport, M Square Research Park, Speculation
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) spent a few days in May evaluating the TDOZ warehouse district for potential development. The area of interest is identified by that big red splotch on the image. Currently a large portion of that area is for sale and could be yours for the low price of $6.2 million. [...]
September 21st, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in M Square Research Park, Purple Line, Transportation
Service began at the College Park metro station on December 11th, 1993. Since that time, only one Transit Oriented Development (the FDA building) has been built in the area. What’s the only other major construction project in the immediate area in the past ten years? A 1,345 space parking garage. Such is the plight of [...]
February 13th, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in General College Park, M Square Research Park, NOAA Building, Route 1
We often use one word to describe the amount of development coming to College Park – “staggering“. Yet while driving down Route 1, not one crane can be seen nor construction project underway. Even on campus, the recent building frenzy seems to have trickled to a halt among higher bond prices and tightening state purse [...]
January 9th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Golub Property, M Square Research Park
A 460-unit project (including 30 town homes) is currently proposed for Riverdale Park right adjacent to the City of College Park. The project would take the place of the former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) building between Lafayette Avenue and Tuckerman Street known as the “Golub Property”. The Gazette reported on the project in [...]
