Bringing the New York Metro life sciences innovation community together
The Premier Organization at the Intersection of Life Sciences and Real Estate
Launched in 2018, NY Metro Builds Bio+ hosts a series of meetings and generates research, reports and educational initiatives serving as the catalyst for more targeted initiatives that the greater New York Metro life science real estate community is looking to pursue.
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership-driven organization, NY Metro Builds Bio+ is dedicated to bringing the life sciences innovation community together, serving as the go-to place to find information about and assistance with growing, building and locating life science companies in the New York Metropolitan area.
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The goal of NY Metro Builds Bio+ is to educate an integrated base of life science and real estate professionals, increase the visibility of commercial life sciences opportunities, and jump start life science real estate development in NY Metro area in a manner that will foster a large and growing economics cluster.
Steering Committee
NY Metro Builds Bio+
Leadership Committees
Looking to get involved with NY Metro Builds Bio+? Join a leadership Committee!
Builds Bio+ Leadership Committees are locally-focused, multidisciplinary groups of professionals involved in real estate development (developers, building owners, brokers, lawyers and financial institutions, architects, construction and engineering firms, permitting firms, consultants), as well as key players in the life science industry (individual investors, venture capitalists, CEOs, pharma, entrepreneurs, executives, potential tenants), community leaders and policy makers at the State and local level.
Joining one of our Leadership Committees means you're committing to meet monthly to develop/work on your Leadership Committee's Agenda, share best practices, updates and industry news, and collaborate on events/programming to help drive a community of engagement.
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Leadership Committee
Chairs and Secretaries
Membership & Planning
NY Metro Builds Bio+ (NYMBB+) aspires to educate an integrated base of real estate and life science professionals, increase the visibility of commercial life science opportunities, and grow life science real estate development in the Greater New York Metro Area and beyond.
Our members are a critical resource in helping to achieve these goals. This Committee will work to support members and expand membership while identifying topics and services important to members. NYMBB+ connects commercial life science opportunities to the Greater New York Metro’s real estate development community through events, research, reports and educational programs.
The Membership and Planning Committee will also help to organize and implement these activities as well as identify issues of importance and concern for the community.
Meeting Time:
Second Wednesday of each month at 11 am
Monthly Meeting Minutes
Co-Chairs:
- Bill Brody, Vice President, Henegan Construction Co
- bbrody@henegan.com - Laura Gallo, Director of Marketing, Brand & Growth, Group PMx - lgallo@grouppmx.com
Academic Medical Institutions
Over the last 20 years, much of the new life science development in New York City has been undertaken by the major academic and medical institutions, expanding the footprint of life sciences in the City, providing life science infrastructure and building spectacular new life science environments that are shaping the way research and healthcare delivery will be done in the future. The Builds Bio+ Academic Institutions Committee will work to foster relationships between academic institutions in the Greater New York Metro area and the local life science community to create opportunities for knowledge sharing and to help bridge the gap between institutional research, commercial technology development, and life science real estate development.
Meeting Time:
First Monday of each month at 4 pm
Monthly Meeting Minutes
Co-Chairs:
- Trevor Boz, PE, PMP, LEED, AP, Senior Vice President, WSP - trevor.boz@wsp.com
- Raquel Diaz, Senior Project Executive, Gilbane Building Company - rdiaz@gilbaneco.com
- David Schwartz, Regional Leader for Science and Technology, HOK - david.schwartz@hok.com
Healthcare
The healthcare industry continues to evolve, as it responds to the twin mandates of serving a growing patient population, while mitigating the rapid increase in the price of the services it delivers.
With the growing impact of telemedicine, academic medical centers are being forced to change their business models and reduce cost. For the real estate industry, this means a shift in the kinds of spaces required for healthcare organizations, in response to accelerating patient loads and increased demand from tenants seeking new kinds of spaces.
The Healthcare Committee will track trends in the healthcare market and how it is affecting the delivery of healthcare in real estate environments.
Meeting Time:
Last Tuesday of each month at 9 am
Monthly Meeting Minutes
Co-Chairs:
- Joseph Bolano, Managing Director, New York Regional Healthcare & Life Sciences Sector Leader, Colliers Project Leaders - joe.bolano@colliers.com
- Rose Ross Novack, Senior Associate, Gensler - rose_novak@gensler.com
Life Sciences
Academic medical centers have initiated several new ventures over the last few years to commercialize technology developed by researchers in the Greater New York Metro area and start new companies. In addition to these efforts, more than 30 incubators have been formed or grown in the Greater New York Metro area.
The Life Sciences Leadership Committee will work to provide life science companies a path from incubator to step-out space and will initiate programming on topics of interest for start-up life science companies. This group will also help to track life science trends in the Greater New York Metro area as well as identify issues of importance that will support the formation and growth of new life science companies.
Meeting Time:
Third Wednesday of the month at 3:30 pm
Monthly Meeting Minutes
Co-Chairs:
- Chris Horch, PE, LEED, AP, CEA, Associate Partner, JBB - horchc@jbb.com
- Joseph DelPozzo PE, LC, LEED AP BD+C, Principal, Meyers+ Engineers - joe@myersplus.com
- Doug Gonzalez, Partner, LERA Consulting Structural Engineers - doug.gonzalez@lera.com
NY Metro Life Science Real Estate Subclusers
Developers, building owners, and institutions are responding to the strong life science market trends and forecast, expanding the Greater New York Metro life science footprint to meet the increasing demand for life science space in the Greater NY Metro area. These activities are taking place in a number of life science “subclusters” that are emerging throughout the city and surrounding environs: Long Island City, East Side Midtown, Manhattanville, West Side Midtown and Hudson Square, Brooklyn, Long Island, Jersey City, Westchester County, Southern CT and Philadelphia PA.
The Life Science Real Estate Subcluster Committees will track the life science activities and real estate development projects in these subclusters, to create a database of information for the life science and real estate communities.
North of West 54th Street Meeting Time:
First Wednesday of the month at 2 pm
Monthly Meeting Minutes
North of West 54th Street Co-Chairs:
- Delphine Daniels, Assoc. AIA, Business Development Manager Gilbane Building Company - ddaniels1@gilbaneco.com
- Tracy Anderson, Director, Business Development, Skanska - tracy.anderson@skanska.com
Southern Greater New York Metro Meeting Time:
Second Friday of the month at 4 pm
Southern Greater New York Metro Co-Chairs:
- Peter Schubert, FAIA, Partner, Ennead Architects - pschubert@ennead.com
- Robert Hopenhajm, Commercial/Mixed Use Marketing Lead, Ennead Architects - rhopenhajm@ennead.com
- Matthew Mendicino, Ennead
- Michael Harrison, Principal, Edson Advisors
Regulatory
Regulatory issues need to be addressed in order to expand the footprint for life science real estate development in the Greater New York Metro area.
The Regulatory Leadership Committee will aim to clarify open issues and give tenants, building owners and developers greater clarity and guidance about locating life science uses throughout the Greater New York Metro area.
This Leadership Committee will also explore policy development supportive of the life science industry.
Meeting Time:
Second Monday of each month at 2 pm
Monthly Meeting Minutes
Co-Chairs:
- Anthony Montalto, Partner, Jaros, Baum & Bolles - montaltoam@jbb.com
- Zachary Bernstein, Partner, Fried Frank - zachary.bernstein@friedfrank.com
