By Mario Marroquin
A joint venture by health care investment management firm
CBC Group of Singapore and pension provider APG of the Netherlands signed the
acquisition of a 13.8-acre site in Shanghai. The joint venture inked the
acquisition of the site, located in the Shanghai Industrial Park in Qingpu
through its CBC Healthcare Infrastructure Platform. The site, when completed,
will consist of manufacturing, and research and development facilities.
CBC HIP plans to erect eight manufacturing facilities, two
R&D offices and ancillary facilities. According to Mingtiandi, the life
science park will span approximately 1.2 million square feet of leasable space.
The publication also said the site acquisition marks the
third investment made by the platform in four months.
“We are delighted to have taken 100% ownership of this 83.76
mu site, which follows previous investments in Beijing – at the Zhongguancun
Life Science Park and the China Bio-medicine Park,” Hans Kang, CEO of CBC HIP,
said in a statement. “The life science zone of the Qingpu Industrial Park is
strategically located at the center of the Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone,
and our development will provide cutting-edge facilities to accelerate
world-class scientific research and support the growth of the life science
market in China.”
CBC said the site acquisition will seek to exploit Qingpu’s
emergence as a life science hub for innovative medicine, clinical nutrition,
aesthetic diagnostics, and high-end domestic medicine. The joint-venture has
acquired over 4.4 million square feet of life science space in Beijing and
Shanghai since its launch in 2021.
APG and CBC are also joint-venture partners in CBC China
Life Sciences Infrastructure Venture, which invests in life science research
and manufacturing facilities in China. At the time it launched in November
2021, APG and CBC said the life science infrastructure venture held enough land
in Shanghai to develop up to 10.8 million square feet of life science
space.
News of the joint-venture acquisition comes days after APG
and CapitaLand Investment penned an initial equity investment of S$570 million
(US$404.5 million) in Extra Space Asia, which owns 70 self-storage facilities
in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo.
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