Yale University has just purchased 137 acres of property and 1.5 square feet of buildings in nearby West Haven and Orange, Connecticut, the Yale Daily News reports today. The buildings include 550, 000 square feet of laboratory space.

According to Yale president Rick Levin, “To build new would be much more expensive than what we had to pay to buy the entire site…. This is a once in a century opportunity.”

This is clearly not a project on the scope of Allston, but it seems like a quiet coup for Yale…..