As colleges and universities plan for future growth and success while facing challenges like Covid-19 and the higher education cliff, they need to consider alternative ways to differentiate their institution and continue to be a destination for the best and brightest faculty, researchers, students and staff.

While on the surface innovation development simply appears to be development adjacent to higher education, healthcare, and/or research anchors, there is an important recipe for partners to achieve ultimate success in creating a dynamic network of people, resources, and ideas. This development takes on different forms, including research parks, anchor-focused clusters, revitalized urban areas, and in some cases, entire innovation districts.

Edgemoor's turnkey solution for UCSF's Sandler Neurosciences Center allowed for an integrated turnkey design-build team that was contractually aligned and accountable for delivering the facility on schedule and budget as well as meeting the building performance requirements necessary to support world-class neurological research studies.