University of Maryland M Square Research Park 2133 Lee Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-5121 (301) 405-1990 Brian Darmody, Esq., Assistant V.P., Research and Economic Development

M Square Research Park is a 130-acre research park adjacent to the University of Maryland, College Park.  Once completed, M Square will be the largest research park in the region with over 2.5 million square-feet of public and private research, lab and incubator space.

Adjacent to the University of Maryland, ranked among the nation's top 20 public research universities, and just eight miles from the Nation's Capital, M Square offers flexible office space as small as incubator suites for start up companies to build-to-suit options for larger technology clients.  The park is served by the Washington Metro subway and a MARC commuter rail station providing service to both Washington D.C. and Baltimore. 

The park's location serves to link physically and programmatically university researchers, students and staff with federal laboratories and private sector companies.  Key technology clusters at the park include homeland and national security, environmental and earth sciences, and food safety and food security.  Selected tenants include:

• U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN)
• University of Maryland (UM) / FDA Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN)
• UM Center for Food, Nutrition, and Agriculture Policy (CFNAP)
• U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP)
• UM / NASA Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)
• UM / Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI)  
• American Center For Physics (ACP)
• UM Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering
• MXF Technologies
• PNC Bank Computer Center
• UM Center for Advanced Study of Language
• UM National Foreign Language Center
• U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)