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August 9, 2016

Huge Bell Labs building reborn as a space for tech innovators

  • Toll Brothers plans to develop up to 40 single-family homes and 185 age-restricted townhomes, as well as a field house for sports on the site in New Jersey.
    • By SHAWN MARSH
    Associated Press

    TRENTON, N.J. — The 2 million-square-foot building where Bell Labs scientists helped launch modern cellular networks before it became one of the country's largest vacant office buildings is drawing companies with the lure of working at a complex surrounded by technological history.

    A water tower in the shape of a transistor, which the company's scientists created in 1947 as part of their continuing mission to improve and expand communications, stands over the Bell Works complex in Holmdel, near the site where the Big Bang theory of the universe was proven.


     
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