Villigen: Building application for Park Innovaare submitted
On March 9, the building application for the first stage of Park Innovaare, the Aargau site of the Swiss Innovation Park, was submitted.
The Innovaare park is being built in Villigen, Aargau, in the immediate vicinity of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). The investment volume amounts to CHF 165 million.
Until 2020, ERNE AG Holzbau is building more than 35,000 sqm of space for laboratories, clean rooms, workshops and offices as a total contractor. The Zurich-based firm Hornberger Architekten is responsible for design and planning.
The first stage comprises four building sections. With House A (5,300 square meters) and the clean room hall, the first buildings are to be ready for occupancy by the second quarter of 2020. House B is then scheduled for completion by the first quarter of the following year.
Of the total 35,000 square meters of floor space, 21,000 square meters are leasable areas, including around 7,000 square meters of workshops and special laboratories and 1,300 square meters of ISO5 and ISO6 cleanrooms. The offer is supplemented by office, conference and recreation areas as well as a restaurant. The buildings will be directly accessible via the cantonal road and connected to the PSI site by an underpass without any intersections.
Investor is still being sought
The building permit is expected at the end of September this year, and work is scheduled to start in October 2017. The investor will also be announced with the building permit, according to innovAARE AG, the sponsoring and operating company of Park Innovaare. Talks with investors have already begun.
The Aargau Innovation Park is part of the newly created innovation park "Switzerland Innovation" with a total of five locations in Switzerland. The innovation park will one day be home to industrial research groups from large-scale industry, spin-offs from science, and research-related and technology-savvy SMEs from Switzerland and abroad.
According to innovAARE, around 70 percent of the new space being built in Villigen has already been reserved. The future tenants are companies from the fields of biotechnology, materials science, energy and accelerator technology, as well as the PSI.
