Booth No. 367 in the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center is less than four miles away from University Park at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., a mixed-use Mecca of state-of the-art scientific research and lab facilities, residential units, retail amenities, a hotel and conference center.  

For the Forest City Science + Technology Group, who will showcase its portfolio and skill set as the country's premiere developer of life science campuses, the location of the 2007 BIO International Convention is a welcomed opportunity to showcase its 20 years of expertise in life sciences real estate. With world-class academic partners and a national development platform, Forest City Science + Technology Group is helping drive the explosive growth of biotechnology and healthcare across the country.

Center of Attention

Football has the Super Bowl. Competitive eaters have the Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest. And the biotechnology industry has BIO, the annual conference that will draw 20,000 attendees, 1,800 exhibiting companies and 300 public officials to Boston, shining a global spotlight on the biotech industry from May 6 - 9.

And what better place than Boston – adjacent to Cambridge, one of the world’s premier life sciences clusters. With a young, diverse workforce, a wealth of cultural offerings and institutions, along with the public and private commitment to make it a reality, the city was a natural attraction for the event.

So much so, in fact, that 2007 marks the event’s return after a successful showing in 2000.

With such a vibrant life science and biotechnology climate in the Boston area, how does University Park at MIT standout?

Ask attendees from BIO 2006 in Chicago, who were wowed by The Illinois Science + Technology Park, the Science + Technology Group’s 23-acre development that is driving the state’s economic engine for bioscience technologies.

“It’s not a coincidence that the last two conferences have been held in Forest City’s active markets,” said Gayle Blakely Farris, president and CEO – Forest City Science + Technology Group, who also serves on the convention’s steering committee. “All our developments are strategically located in the nation’s primary corridors for life science and biotechnology research. And our projects stand out, even in the best markets, for what they allow our tenants to accomplish.”