Lab Space for Rent in Houston

Size

100–200 sq ft

Price

$1,000–$2,000/bench/mo

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Ask provider

CUBiO Innovation Hub is a life science incubator inside Houston's Texas Medical Center offering walk-in-ready BSL-2 wet lab/office suites in three fixed sizes (100, 140 and 200 sq ft) at $1,000–$2,000 per month, each bundled with bench space, desks, reserved parking and monthly mentorship hours. Unlike a pure landlord, every membership includes incubation support, consulting and access to CUBiO's accelerator, investment room and network of 400+ international trainers and consultants. Shared core equipment (autoclaves, PCR, centrifuges, spectrophotometer, incubators) is included, with optional add-on packages for cell culture, -80°C/-20°C freezer storage and DI water.

Size

427–45,000 sq ft

Price

$919–$1,072/lab/mo

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

Available

East End Maker Hub is a 300,000+ sq ft nonprofit makerspace and light-industrial campus in Houston's East End, operated by UP CDC and TXRX Labs, that leases below-market "whitebox" lab, workshop and fabrication space alongside traditional manufacturers, hardware, biomanufacturing and medical device tenants. Unusually for a lab provider, tenants get shared access to TXRX Labs' full in-house industrial machine shop and rapid-prototyping services, plus nine semi-truck loading docks and up to 4,000-amp electrical service — making it a fit for founders scaling from bench to pilot-scale production. A planned 105,000 sq ft "East End Maker Lab" expansion with cleanroom, wet lab, a biotech accelerator and incubator was announced for Fall 2023, but the site has not been updated since and delivery could not be independently confirmed.

Size

Up to 40,000 sq ft

Price

From $1,000

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

Limited

JLABS is Johnson & Johnson's global life-science incubator network, offering wet lab benches, private lab suites and offices on a genuinely "no-strings-attached" basis — J&J takes no equity, claims no IP rights, and does not require confidential information to apply. Residents get capital-light access to shared instrumentation, EH&S and operations management, plus J&J scientific mentorship, investor/partnering days and QuickFire Challenge funding. Important caveat for 2026: JLABS has sharply contracted, closing Houston, Washington D.C. and Toronto and handing its NYC site to the New York Genome Center, leaving San Diego, South San Francisco and Boston (via LabCentral) as the only remaining North American physical sites.

Size

2,532–51,940 sq ft

Price

On request

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Available

TMC Innovation Factory is Texas Medical Center's 111,000 sq ft life science innovation hub — a converted 1948 Nabisco cookie factory on the edge of the world's largest medical campus — offering BSL-1/BSL-2 wet labs, electronics and mechanical testing labs, therapeutic biology/chemistry labs with shared instrumentation, and flexible office/coworking. Unlike a pure landlord, it bundles space with TMC's accelerator programs (Health Tech, BioBridge), the Center for Device Innovation, and a $75M TMC Venture Fund; resident companies have raised over $5.8B since 2015. In January 2026 TMC opened "Innovation Labs @ TMC," a 34,000 sq ft TMC-managed lab and life science office suite inside the Factory occupying the former JLABS @ TMC footprint.

Size

Not published

Price

On request

Biosafety

BSL-2

Availability

Ask provider

K2bio is a Houston "hybrid CRO" and bio-accelerator just south of the 610 loop near the Texas Medical Center, renting configurable lab benches, private labs, offices and cubicles inside a BSL-2 certified facility. Its differentiator is that tenants get an on-site rodent vivarium (IACUC/OLAW standards, AAALAC-aligned practices, IVC caging, IVIS imaging, necropsy) plus a CLIA-certified clinical lab and process development lab — so a startup can run its own IND-enabling in vivo work without leaving the building. Companies can bring their own scientists or contract K2bio's in-house staff on an FTE basis, making it well suited to preclinical therapeutics teams that want to avoid vivarium capex.