
Developer Seeks to Triple Size of Worcester Biomanufacturing Facility
Worcester’s biggest life sciences development site could get a lot bigger thanks to a proposal the city’s Planning Board is expected to consider next month.
Worcester’s biggest life sciences development site could get a lot bigger thanks to a proposal the city’s Planning Board is expected to consider next month.
Biomanufacturing was supposed to be a big part of the next “Massachusetts Miracle,” but tenant requirements have been cut in half in the last year. But its believers have faith in the sector’s durability over the long term.
There’s a land grab going on in central Massachusetts as developers seek sites where new drug candidates invented in Greater Boston’s ever-expanding lab facilities can be tested.
Worcester is hungry for more life science success after pads at the 46-acre Reactory biomanufacturing park were rapidly bought up by firms eager to exploit its relatively close connection to Kendall Square.
A Webster real estate company that specializes in build-to-suit life science projects has signed the second development deal at The Reactory, an emerging biomanufacturing campus at the 46-acre former Worcester State Hospital property.