Current Projects
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Drexel Project Updates as of May 2025
Academic Resource Center (ARC): The design work is ongoing for Phase 2 of this project, which will expand the functions of the ARC across the entire first floor of the Korman Center. Current projected completion is fall 2026. A $2.5 million pledge from trustee Patrick McGonigal '86 is enabling these further renovations to the center, which will be named in his honor.
Electrical Replacements: Construction to replace the three motor control centers in Disque Hall was complete and systems tested in March 2025. The project is now operational.
Façade Renovations: The Academic Building façade repairs are in progress. The sidewalk around the building remains protected as work continues on the historic building, with completion anticipated in fall 2025.
Infrastructure Upgrades: The next round of City Tune-ups have begun for the Daskalakis Athletic Center, URBN Center, Academic Building, Recreation Center, Nesbitt Hall, and 3201Arch Street.
Partner Project Updates as of May 2025
3201 Cuthbert Street (Gattuso Development Partners): Gattuso is completing the exterior cladding for its 509,000 SF life sciences development at 3201 Cuthbert Street, and the building is being readied for interior fit-outs. Gattuso expects the core and shell of the building to be complete in second quarter of 2025. Cambridge-based Smart Labs, one of the leading lab management firms in the United States, has signed a lease for 117,000 SF of the building. Drexel will have both a ground-floor presence and exclusive use of the 11th floor, occupying around 60,000 SF total to house core research and business outreach operations, as well as much-needed laboratory, convening and office space for appropriate components in the College of Engineering and/or School of Biomedical Engineering, as well as translational research labs to support Drexel innovation.
Spark Therapeutics Development at F Lot: Spark Therapeutics is completing the exterior cladding for its new Gene Therapy Innovation Center being developed on campus through a 99-year ground lease of Drexel’s former F Lot. The building is nearly fully enclosed and ready for interior fit-outs. Spark expects this project to be complete for occupancy with offices and labs in 2026, with full gene therapy manufacturing to come in 2027. The anticipated 500,000-square-foot, multi-story building will serve as a Roche global center of excellence for gene therapy manufacturing and will create opportunities for collaboration with Drexel and Philadelphia’s life sciences community.
Schuylkill Yards (Brandywine Realty Trust): Brandywine continues to work with potential operators for a food hall on the ground floor of the Bulletin Building. 3151 Market Street, a new stand-alone lab building accommodating approximately 450,000 square feet of lab and lab-support spaces, is fully clad and ready for tenant fit-outs.