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Development has accelerated at Michigan State University's Grand Rapids Innovation Park, at the northwest corner of the city's Medical Mile, so called for its array of health care facilities and institutions.
The school's Grand Rapids Research Center opened on the 2.5-acre site in 2017. The entire Medical Mile has about 15 acres. The building has 162,000 square feet and was built at a cost of $88 million. It currently houses 180 employees and 33 teams working with principal investigators on a variety of projects, including women's health, cancer, pediatrics, neurosciences, autism and bioinformatics.
Going up next door, the outside sheathed in orange vapor-barrier material, is the $85 million, six-story, 200,000-square-foot Doug Meijer Medical Innovation Building, scheduled for completion this fall.
