LOCATION

The Bourne Development Campus will be created in the Town of Bourne, Massachusetts on the mainland side of the Cape Cod Canal. Click here for Google Maps locator with the Canal at the bottom of the image and Route 25 connecting to interstate highways to Providence and New York, and Route 6 connecting to Route 3 north to Boston.

The site is 172 acres of undeveloped land spanning Route 25 and reaching almost to Route 6 which runs parallel to the Canal. About 50 acres will be developed with the remaining acreage preserved as open space.

The technology campus is one component of a Bournedale Long-Range Collaborative Plan. Click here for master concept plan prepared by Stantec Planning and Landscape Architects.

In June, Tighe & Bond (environmental engineers) completed a master concept plan for phase 1 of the campus -- $250,000 square feet. Click here for Tighe & Bond concept plan. The project was funded by a US Department of Agriculture’s Rural Business Enterprise Grant.

THE CAMPUS

Current plans suggest that the technology campus will have a building capacity of between 250,000 and 720,000 sq. ft. developed over a ten-to-twelve year period.

Targeted companies are emerging and small businesses – ”business-launch to business scale”– working in the fields of alternative energy technologies, other green technologies, and the marine sciences.

The park’s infrastructure and buildings will be designed to meet LEED certification and ISO 14000 standards using Low Impact Design concepts and energy generated by wind turbines.

The buildings will be purpose-built to support research-and-development and light manufacturing in one, two and three-story structures. They will be designed with high ceilings, heavy load-bearing floors, and spaces that can be expanded as emerging companies become more mature.

MARKET AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The Bourne Development Campus planners commissioned a market study and fiscal impact analysis from Ninigret Partners. Their data, along with data from the Stantec study, project the following benefits:

• Up to 1,400 jobs with a $70 million payroll when campus reaches full build-out

• A positive impact to the regional economy eventually approaching $210 million

• A diversification of the area’s employment base with year-round jobs projected to have salaries about 1.5 times the region’s current estimated per capita income

• Net new real estate taxes for the Town of Bourne projected to be at least $300,000, plus other tax revenues and fees, such as business licenses.

In addition, the campus has the potential to reverse the trend of commuting long distances for higher-paying jobs. This will reduce auto-related emissions, and could save more than 500,000 person-hours of commuting time and 1.7 million gallons of gasoline.