January 7, 2008Merck Research Laboratories, 33 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
The building to the right was completed in 2004 and houses Merck Research Laboratories in Boston's Longwood Medical Area. Work here concentrates on drug development for cancer and neurodegeneration.
This building is credited with saving a nearby institution, Emmanuel College, from financial collapse. In 2000, the cash-strapped school was looking for a developer that would build on its land as a last resort. Merck swept in, and that year, signed a 75-year lease for $50 million, no strings attached. The result: the construction of the building, and the pumping of money into the historic private school. Since 1999, Emmanuel's endowment has soared from $8.6 million to $85 million. Enrollment has increased from under 500 students in 1999 to over 1700 in 2007. The school enrolled its first coed class in 2001. It is presently building a massive science center, adjacent to the Merck building, slated for completion in 2009.
In the distance is Harvard Medical School's New Research Building, which opened in 2003 and houses some of the best modern architecture on the medical campus, a large state-of-the-art cafeteria, and FitCorp gymnasium.
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