SAN FRANCISCO—Mayor Edwin M. Lee announced on Friday, June 21 that the life sciences company Illumina Inc. will be opening new offices in the Mission Bay area. Those offices include a state of the art research facility. The company has signed a lease for a flagship site at 499 Illinois Street which is owned by Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
“I am thrilled to welcome Illumina to San Francisco’s life sciences community,” said Mayor Lee in a press release. “The addition of Illumina to Mission Bay’s roster of innovative life sciences companies speaks to the value of the collaborative environment of our biotech cluster and extends San Francisco’s hard earned reputation as the Innovation Capital of the World,” he added.
The company has a 10-year lease that includes about 97,900 square feet that will account for about 45 percent of the total space for the more than 219,600 square feet building.
“The newSan Franciscooffice will expand Illumina’s Bay Area footprint and increase visibility in a key customer and talent market,” said Illumina President and CEO Jay Flatley. “This expanded presence will help us in our hiring and collaboration efforts, and support Illumina’s rapid growth as we pursue our mission to unlock the power of the genome and improve human health.”
Mayor Lee has made recent announcements that include Rock Health coming to the Mission Bay region in addition to QB3@953, a new incubator that has become San Francisco’s 6th and will provide space for 20-30 new life sciences companies to the city.
By LaDale Anderson
