It's a new (bocce) ball game for biotech space, workers

Fun and games isn’t exclusively for the tech crowd anymore.

As HCP Inc.’s planned 884,000-square-foot South San Francisco life sciences R&D and office development shows, tech-like amenities are taking hold with biotechs as well. In fact, one of the first two buildings to be constructed at HCP’s The Cove at Oyster Point is an “amenities building” that includes not only R&D and office space but a cafeteria that will be open to the public and look out on a 5.5-acre open area with a bocce ball court,…