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Johns Hopkins University opened the John G. Rangos Sr. Life Sciences Building in East Baltimore, Md., on April 11, 2008. The University will occupy 100,000-sf of lab and office space in the 278,000-sf facility. The $60 million, seven-story building will provide interdisciplinary research space for the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences in the areas of epigenetics, sensory biology, cell dynamics, and metabolism and obesity research. The project is the first building to open at the $800 million, 80-acre Science + Technology Park located immediately north of the Hopkins medical campus. The life sciences park will also include housing, retail, and offices. Other tenants in the Rangos Building include BioMarker Strategies, Cangen Biotechnologies, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The project developer is Forest City-New East Baltimore Partnership, a joint venture of Forest City Enterprises and Baltimore-based Presidential Partners LLC.