Coming soon to the Ion District: the Arc building with 196,400 sq ft of office & R&D space. Learn more
The Ion District is a 16-acre innovation hub in Houston’s Midtown, developed by Rice University to foster collaboration among entrepreneurs, academics, startups, and established companies. Anchored by the Ion building—a centerpiece for technology, research, and entrepreneurship—and home to Greentown Labs, one of North America’s leading climate tech incubators, the Ion District offers dynamic workspaces, labs, and event venues designed to accelerate innovation and economic growth.
the Ion District will soon expand with The Arc, a nearly 200,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art research and technology facility purpose-built to accelerate collaboration, research, and commercialization across key industries.
The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship drives activation at the Ion, the epi-center of the Ion District, bringing together people, expertise, capital, and corporate and community partners into a single coordinated system. The Rice Alliance will deliver the structures, relationships, and experiences that accelerate learning, traction, investment, and scale for high-potential startups. Stay tuned for more info as the Advantage Platform launches!
The District’s robust food and drink offerings showcase hyper-local concepts that reflect Houston’s reputation for having a culturally-diverse restaurant industry.
Rice Real Estate Co., in partnership with Lincoln Property Co., today unveiled plans to develop a landmark research, laboratory and office building designed to catalyze world-class innovation and enterprise in Houston. The new facility, named The Arc at the Ion District, will bring almost 200,000 square feet of modern, flexible research and development space to the Ion District.
Beautifully revived and once home to the iconic Sears showroom, itself a modern marvel in 1939, is today a sunlit structure of steel and glass with an amenity-rich environment designed to inspire in-person collaboration and creativity, improve your employees’ work experience, and attract new hires.
