Big plan on campus: Canadian universities commercialize their land
Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., may have jumped the gun when it put Noblegen Inc.’s future home on its latest campus map, but at least the move was on-trend.
The local biotech company is planning to build a new 300,000-square-foot headquarters at the south end of Cleantech Commons, Canada’s newest research park. Backed by $2-million in investment from Trent and $12-million in infrastructure spending by the City of Peterborough, Cleantech Commons was officially approved in 2017, which is also when Noblegen signed on as the anchor tenant. As well as portraying the company’s as-yet-unrealized real estate plans in considerable detail, Trent’s campus map includes access roads that are slated to extend into the 36-hectare site later this year alongside city services.