Ginkgo Bioworks has signed a lease for nearly 70,000 square feet of space in the Innovation and Design Building in South Boston.

The company which raised $45 million in series B funding last summer will add a light lab infrastructure to its existing organism engineering foundry within the 1.4-million-square-foot complex on Drydock Avenue. Ginkgo Bioworks engineers microbes used in fragrances, cosmetics and sweeteners.

JLL Managing Director Ben Heller, Executive Vice President Ryan Enright and Senior Vice Presidents Kelly Lockberg and Molly Heath represented the property owner, Jamestown, in the transaction. Anne Columbia and Patrick Downey of Columbia Realty represented the tenant.

“For Jamestown, the addition of Ginkgo Bioworks reinforces our success of incubating startups at the IDB,” Michael Phillips, president at Jamestown, said in a statement.

Jamestown leases the former military warehouses-turned-offices and makerspaces from the city of Boston. Since taking over the complex in 2013 it has added food trucks, shipping container kiosks and outdoor seating as amenities and attracted new tenants including Autodesk, MassChallenge, Elkus Manfredi Architects and Emulate.