Year Completed: 2007

Location: Brooklyn Park, MN

Client: PDL BioPharma, Inc.

Square Footage: 95,000 SF

PDL BioPharma (PDL) is a California-based company with major Office, R&D, Lab and Manufacturing components located in Brooklyn Park, MN. Hagen, Christensen & McILwain Architects provided services to program, master plan and design a major facilities expansion on the existing campus. The master plan reviewed the site capacity to support the existing and future needs of PDL, including long-term planning for 3 additional buildings. Specific areas of concern to PDL include the following:

• Provide state of the art, flexible R&D Laboratory space.

• Expansion of Quality Assurance Laboratories.

• Integrate spaces and design into the site and existing PDL “image”.

• Integration of Labs to provide FDA approved separations and adjacency.

The analysis and development options presented were intended to be broad based in order to determine long term solutions to their space needs. The goal of the effort was to set a course of action that would satisfy the company’s immediate space/facility needs as well as to direct future facility expansions that will support the company’s business goals. This project was taken through the City approval process.