Pfizer has unveiled plans to expand its lease agreement with a subsidiary of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, creating a unified Pfizer campus in Kendall Square. With this expansion, Pfizer has leased the full 500,000 square feet at 610 Main Street in Kendall Square. This space will continue to house the R&D activities that relocated to 610 Main Street in 2014, and will enable the consolidation of Pfizer’s three other leased spaces in Cambridge into the one campus.

This most recent lease addition secures an added 130,000 square feet of space for potential expansion in the future and will be available for sub-tenancy in 2017. Once the three remote sites are consolidated, 610 Main Street will house approximately 1,000 Pfizer employees.

Pfizer’s R&D efforts in Cambridge will continue to focus on rare diseases, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, inflammation and immunology, neuroscience, and advanced biotherapeutic technologies. The expanded 370,000-plus square foot KSQ research center will help foster a strong laboratory culture, with experimentation and collaboration in the heart of Cambridge’s Kendall Square innovation hub, featuring state-of-the-art labs and an open design to help foster breakthrough productivity and innovation that will potentially advance Pfizer’s pipeline.

The Pfizer Cambridge campus provides: More laboratory capabilities in proximity to one another; opportunities for collaborations between Pfizer and smaller start-ups and/or biotechs; the ability to coalesce functions from across Pfizer R&D currently spread across Cambridge; and close proximity to new companies.