As­traZeneca un­veils its brand new open-of­fice cen­ter in the Bay Area. Do you love it, or hate it?

The Bay Area biotech hub is home to a gleam­ing string of mod­ern-day trib­utes to the open-of­fice space. And now As­traZeneca has joined the cut­ting-edge set with its own HOK-de­signed fa­cil­i­ty in South San Fran­cis­co.

Af­ter build­ing up a port­fo­lio of re­al es­tate in the San Fran­cis­co area through ac­qui­si­tions and growth, As­traZeneca has brought to­geth­er staffers from Ac­er­ta Phar­ma, Med­Im­mune, Pearl Ther­a­peu­tics and As­traZeneca’s TIDE — Tech­nol­o­gy In­no­va­tion & De­liv­ery Ex­cel­lence — at the pop­u­lar Cove at Oys­ter Point. Some of its neigh­bors in­clude De­nali, which has its own open-space floor and plans to move to a larg­er space near­by, as well as the stealthy Cal­i­co. And they are all just around the cor­ner from Genen­tech, which has helped pop­u­late the lo­cal hub with its vet­er­an re­searchers and ex­ecs.

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