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BioHouston engineers footprint for new biotech business park
By Mary Ann Azevedo - Houston Business Journal - Aug 13, 2006

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2006/08/14/story6.html

Despite the underlying notion of dueling biotech parks, the planners behind a new biotech resource center and business park that was announced this week insist the venture will not compete with the nearby UT Research Park.

BioHouston outlined plans this week for the new BioHouston Resource Center and Genesis Biotechnology Park, a conglomeration of office and lab space designed to assist start-up life science companies on the road to commercialization.

The Houston-based organization plans to move its headquarters from the Houston Technology Center in Midtown to the new biotech park at 2555 Holly Hall near the intersection of El Rio, which is about a mile south of the Texas Medical Center.

Sixteen life science companies already lease space in the six-building area, which will now be known as the Genesis Biotechnology Park, according to BioHouston President and CEO Jacqueline Northcut Waugh. Those companies include Introgen Therapeutics Inc., PLx Pharma Inc., Nanospectra Biosciences Inc. and ThromboVision Inc.

Waugh says Genesis Biotechnology Park will not compete -- and will collaborate -- with the much-ballyhooed UT Research Park, a joint venture between The University of Texas M.D. Anderson and the UT Health Science Center at Houston that is also located in the Med Center.

Waugh says the Genesis Park is more about creating a conglomeration of life science firms than building real estate from the ground up.

The landlord of the six buildings that make up the park, Western General Holding Co., "gets the concept of biotechnology," says Waugh, and as such, has created a welcoming environment for life science start-ups.

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At least I believe this wasn't built.  I know there are (3 total) BioTech lab campuses in the general area of Holly Hall, on or around El Rio.  I thought those were individually developed and not apart of a campus called Genesis Biotechnology Park.

The biotech parks are called:

Plaza Del Oro Research Park Campus On El Rio St.
Prologis Plaza Del Oro Campus On El Rio St.
MD Anderson BioHouston Campus On El Rio St.

What's confusing is Colliers did a 2019 Houston Biotechnology report and listed the Genesis Biotechnology Park. That is around a 13-year difference from the proposed Genesis Biotechnology Park and the Colliers report. Perhaps they just added it in as a reference to all the BioTech Parks in Houston? 

https://www.colliers.com/en/news/houston/biosciences-and-biotechnology-2019-houston-economic-outlook

Ther established business parks/organizations geared toward biotechnology commercialization in the Houston region include the Genesis Biotechnology Park and BioHouston, Inc. Genesis Biotechnology Park comprises 16 innovative life science companies and researchers located just south of the TMC. The Park was developed to increase venture capital interests in Houston and is committed to supporting start-up companies by providing tenant options for shared office, wet laboratory space (including equipment) and flexible leases. BioHouston, Inc., a non-profit corporation founded by Houston-area academic/research institutions, is actively leading a broad-based effort to strengthen Houston’s position as a global competitor in life science and biotechnology. BioHouston’s Resource Center, the first incubator facility serving the Houston life sciences community, is housed at the Genesis Biotechnology Park, adding a key component to ongoing commercialization efforts. The Center is specifically designed to serve start-up biotech and life sciences companies by offering access to shared laboratory space, research resources and networking opportunities with a community of biotech entrepreneurs.

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