Big Green-Technology Incubator Moving to Somerville

Greentown Labs, "one of the country's biggest incubator spaces for energy-related startups," according to Boston.com, is moving to Somerville, the news website says.

Interestingly, Greentown Labs is leaving Boston's Innovation District on the Fort Point Channel to make the move to Somerville.

It will be moving into former Ames Safety Envelope facility on Tyler Street, though it looks like its street address will be 28 Dane Street.

This is is right next door to Artisan's Asylum and the new Brooklyn Boulders Somerville. In fact, Boston.com says there's an underground tunnel connecting the soon-to-be Greentown Labs space to Artisan's Asylum, and the two workspaces may form partnerships.

The news website also notes Brooklyn Boulders will become a satellite space for the Cambridge Innovation Center. In other words, this corner of Somerville is evolving fast and gaining some gravitational pull within the innovation economy.

Greentown Labs provides space to clean-technology and clean-energy startups. It currently has 28 startups under its roof, but Boston.com says there are 10 organizations on a waiting list.

In all, its startups have about 100 employees, Boston.com says. Not all of Greentown Labs' tenants may make the move to Somerville, but with more space, Greentown's goal is to attract more tenants.

The city of Somerville is providing Greentown with a $300,000 working capital loan, Boston.com says.

Ames Envelope left Somerville after being bought by a Wisconsin company in 2010. Three years later, that corner of Somerville is becoming one of the city's most vibrant and creative areas of the city. You may remember STOMPY, the 4,000-pound, 18-foot spider robot developed at Artisan's Asylum, and earlier this month we took a peek inside the new Brooklyn Boulders Somerville space.

Less than half a mile away, in Union Square, small creative manufacturers, like the one that makes Cuppow, and companies like Recovery Green Roofs, have found success at Fringe, another creative workspace.

You can read Boston.com's whole article here.