America’s Test Kitchen to move headquarters to Innovation and Design Building

Boston, MA America’s Test Kitchen, the home cook’s essential resource for recipes that work, is moving its headquarters to the city’s Innovation and Design Building. This news highlights the tremendous growth of the company and underscores America’s Test Kitchen’s ongoing commitment to providing cooks with the highest quality content in a variety of media.

After more than two decades in Brookline, Mass., America’s Test Kitchen has outgrown its current offices and kitchens. The company’s move to the Innovation and Design Building, located in the Seaport area, heralds a new chapter for the company. At 55,000 s/f, the new space is double the size of the current headquarters and offers the company the chance to create more television and video content as well as more recipes and product reviews for its millions of fans. The new headquarters will house 17,500 s/f of operational space, complete with multiple test kitchens, three dedicated television and video studios, multiple photo and edit studios, and a kitchen specifically dedicated to product testing. Spread across a single floor, the new location will foster an environment that encourages collaboration and creativity.

America’s Test Kitchen will house special kitchens for the ATK TV Show, for Cook’s Country and for the company’s newest entrant, Cook’s Science.  There will also be a large general purpose kitchen for recipe tasting and testing, and product testing.

The demand for a much larger headquarters demonstrates our continued success and leadership in culinary publishing and media. We are thrilled to find a new home in the Innovation and Design building to accommodate our growing operational needs. As one of the most cutting-edge office spaces in Boston, the Innovation and Design Building matches our ambition to be the most state-of-the-art culinary media company in the U.S., said David Nussbaum, CEO of America’s Test Kitchen. The IDB provides the flexibility, functionality, and technology to fuel the continued evolution of our brand. More kitchen and studio space will allow us to create more best-in-class, trusted content to teach, inspire, and inform home cooks across the country and across the world.

More than 200 employees will move into the IDB location in the summer of 2017. Filming of the company’s two television shows, America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country, will occur at new studios within this space. Millions of public television viewers will get their first chance to see the new studio kitchens when episodes of Cook’s Country air in the fall of 2018.

Since taking over The Innovation and Design Building in 2013, Jamestown, L.P. has strived to revitalize the project, including completing renovations to the historic structure to bring it into the 21st century. Jamestown has established themselves as leaders in adaptive re-use, with projects like Ponce City Market in Atlanta, GA and Industry City in Brooklyn, NY. Jamestown is also a recognized innovator in the food space, having created some of the most iconic food halls in the country. At the Innovation and Design Building, recycled shipping containers now house a variety of amenities, including various food outposts. The complex is conveniently located along the MBTA Silver Line route, just minutes from South Station, and is flanked by one of the country’s largest working dry docks to the north and by the Black Falcon Cruise Terminal to the south, an easy commute for all America’s Test Kitchen employees.

The Innovation and Design Building is home to a diverse mix of companies and entrepreneurs, including architects and engineers, skilled makers and craftspeople, research and development firms, and technology start-ups. The Boston Design Center, New England’s premier resource for design professionals with showrooms featuring more than 1,200 luxury product lines is also located in the Innovation and Design Building.

There are few companies with the dynamism of America’s Test Kitchen that contribute to the media culture the way they do and we are fortunate to have them at the Innovation and Design Building, said Michael Phillips, Jamestown.