26-02-2025
Mayo Clinic to build out space on technology campus
Feb. 26—ROCHESTER — Mayo Clinic is looking to Rochester's former IBM campus as the site for a new project.
On Monday, the Clinic filed for a permit for a "HTM Fit-up in Building 103" on the Rochester Technology Campus at 2900 37th St. SE. HTM stands for Mayo Clinic's Healthcare Technology Management department, which maintains medical and clinical equipment.
It is unclear what the timeline for this project is or how many employees will work there. It is also unknown if Mayo Clinic is moving an existing HTM site to Building 103 or if this will be a new facility. Mayo Clinic did not respond to questions about the construction of the HTM site on the Rochester Technology Campus.
Building 103 is the same building where Rochester's Rion has a new 12,000-square-foot manufacturing facility operating to make Rion Aesthetics' anti-aging skin serum called Plated.
Pramana, a Massachusetts-based digital pathology company that works with Mayo Clinic, also operates a 5,000-square-foot spot in Building 103 as its North American distribution and manufacturing center with an estimated five employees.
Applied Aerosol Technologies also has six offices and a small lab space in that same building.
Mayo Clinic is the latest medical company to carve out space in the 69-year-old sprawling complex that was built to house IBM's operations in Rochester.
Vyriad and its related firm, Imanis Life Sciences, are growing rapidly in Building 110. Waters Medical, the U.S. subsidiary of France-based Institut Georges Lopez or IGL, is leasing a 4,100-square-foot spot in Building 003 on the campus.
IBM sold the almost 500-acre campus with its 34 buildings to Los Angeles-based Industrial Realty Group for $33.9 million in 2018. IBM occupies leased space in eight buildings on the property. IBM's younger corporate sibling, Kyndryl , previously also worked out buildings on the campus. However, Kyndryl pulled the plug on its physical offices on the Rochester campus at the end of 2024.
The Armonk. N.Y.-based IBM was Rochester's top employer for much of the late 1950s and early 1960s with technology as the city's main focus trailed by health care in second place.
In 1966, Mayo Clinic tied it, when each employed 3,600 workers. Mayo pulled ahead in 1967 with 3,850 employees compared to IBM's 3,800.
