Article: Biotech condo intended to ease Washtenaw lab crunch.(Ann Arbor Area Coalition for a Community Commercialization Campus hopes to encourage development of more lab space for biotech companies)(Brief Article)

A new industry group is planning a ``biotech condo'' to nurse new and existing life-science companies in Washtenaw County and combat what it sees as the biggest impediment to a thriving life-science industry there: a lack of space.

There isn't enough wet lab space - the expensive, specialized research space that life-science companies need - to outfit all the companies that want to come to Washtenaw County, said Donna Shirilla, director of existing-business programs for the Washtenaw Development Council.

The new group - called the Ann Arbor Area Coalition for a Community Commercialization Campus, or A3C4 - hopes to address the space problem first. It ...

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