The $230-million, 360,000-sf cancer research facility will beconstructed on a parking lot in Kendall Square next to the school'sexisting biology building, and will be the largest of the school'snew facilities. The $185-million Sloan School of Management will beconstructed on Memorial Drive, next to Sloan's currentheadquarters. The school's new $120-million, 163,000-sf Media Labwill expand the current facilities in Kendall Square while the$104-million, 265,000-sf apartment complex will house graduatestudents on Albany Street.

In the past two years, MIT has opened two new buildings, a$175-million Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex and the$300-million Stata Center.

MIT's expansion plans come as other area schools plan additionsto their own campuses. Harvard University, Boston College,Northeastern University, Emerson College and Boston University haveall recently announced significant expansions, as GlobeSt.compreviously reported.