The HELIX Health + Life Science Exchange, originally called The Hub for the New Jersey Innovation and Technology Hub, is a research,

business incubator A business incubator is an organization that helps startup companies and individual entrepreneurs to develop their businesses by providing a fullscale range of services, starting with management training and office space, and ending with venture ...

and innovation center under construction in

New Brunswick, New Jersey New Brunswick is a city (New Jersey), city in and the county seat of Middlesex County, New Jersey, Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.New Brunswick station New Brunswick is an active commuter railroad train station in the city of New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The station services trains of New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor Line and Amtrak's ''Keystone Service'' ...

, served by

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Northeast Corridor Line The Northeast Corridor Line is a commuter rail service operated by NJ Transit between the Trenton Transit Center and New York Penn Station on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor in the United States. The service is the successor to Pennsylvania Railroad ...

and several

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trains. H-1: The first phase of HELIX is a 13-story 574,000 square feet building which will house the New Jersey Innovation HUB, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and a Rutgers translational research facility. It includes retail space, a 10,000-square-foot market hall with food options and a 3,000-square-foot restaurant that opens onto a 70-foot-wide plaza. Ground was broken $650 million project in October 2021. It is expected to be completed in 2025 Construction began July 2023. It was topped out in September 2024. H-2: Designed by HDR, Inc., the second portion of HELIX includes 600,000 square feet of build-to-suit lab and office space. On December 11, 2023 Nokia announced plans to relocate

Nokia Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, commonly referred to as ''Bell Labs'', is an American industrial research and development company owned by Finnish technology company Nokia. With headquarters located in Murray Hill, New Jersey, the company operates several labo ...

to the HELIX as the sole tenant of H-2. H-3: The third phase of the project will include a 42-story mixed used building, including 220 units of housing.

Stakeholders and tenants

The

New Jersey Economic Development Authority The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) is an independent government entity in the U.S. state of New Jersey dedicated to broadening and expanding the state's economic base. The EDA creates public-private partnerships to provide acce ...

, which provided tax credits, and the New Brunswick Development Corporation (DEVCO) are partners in the project. Part of the project will be dedicated to

translational research Translational research (also called translation research, translational science, or, when the context is clear, simply translation) is research aimed at translating (converting) results in basic research into results that directly benefit humans ...

. Tenants (and potential chip manufacturer) will include: *Rutgers'

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is a medical school of Rutgers University. It is one of the two graduate medical schools of Rutgers Health, together with New Jersey Medical School, and is closely aligned with Robert Wood Johnson University ...

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

Atlantic Technological University Atlantic Technological University (also known as Atlantic TU or ATU; ) is a Technological Universities in Ireland, technological university in the west and north-west of Ireland. It was formally established on 1 April 2022 as a merger of three ...

* Choose New Jersey *

Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) is an American network of healthcare providers in New Jersey, based out of Edison. Members include academic centers, acute care facilities, and research hospitals. Hackensack Meridian Health aims to create one ...

RWJBarnabas Health RWJBarnabas Health is a hospital network, network of independent healthcare providers in New Jersey, based out of West Orange, New Jersey, West Orange. Members include academic centers, acute care facilities, and research hospitals. The goals of ...

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DEVCO The HubThe Hub
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