Marlboro will be home to GE Healthcare Life Sciences' new $21 million, 160,000-square-foot headquarters for U.S. operations, the company announced today.
"Our new facility in Massachusetts will position us for continued innovation and competition in such a fast-paced, innovative industry," said Kieran Murphy, president and CEO of GE Healthcare Life Sciences in a statement released by the company. "We will be close to industry-leading talent, customers, and world-class academic and medical institutions across all the industry sectors we serve, from biotech and pharma, to diagnostics and medical devices."
The headquarters, scheduled to open in spring 2015, will establish a new site for more than 500 GE Healthcare Life Sciences employees and create more than 220 new jobs, company officials said.
"Today, Massachusetts' life sciences sectors are the fastest-growing sectors of our economy. We look forward to welcoming the U.S. life sciences headquarters of GE Healthcare and are pleased that the company will create a substantial number of new, STEM-related job opportunities in central Massachusetts," Gov. Deval Patrick said in the statement.
This investment will transform a currently unoccupied space into state-of-the-art labs, customer application facilities, and office space to complement GE Healthcare Life Sciences' existing manufacturing capability in Westboro.
"When fully operational, the new facility will bring more than 220 highly qualified new job opportunities to the area, including highly-skilled positions such as lab technicians, biologists, medical doctors, process engineers, and customer service representatives," the company said.
"Marlboro continues to be a center for innovation. This GE Healthcare Life Sciences investment, adding more than 220 new jobs with an exciting biotechnology leader, is proof that innovation is thriving outside route 128, and of Marlborough's ability to build the necessary infrastructure to attract top tier, global life sciences companies," said Marlboro Mayor Arthur Vigeant in the statement.
Last week, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center CEO Susan Windham-Bannister told the Herald the organization had been in discussions with GE Healthcare over the past two years about a move.
"We're talking about a company that's more diversified, has a big imaging component to it, and a big bioinformatics component," she said. "This is a different kind of company. We're really excited about that. They've certainly had a modest presence in Massachusetts, but for them to make this decision is big."
A 2013 report for the Boston Foundation, conducted by Bluestone and Alan Clayton-Matthews of Northeastern, found the state's life sciences industry growing at a faster pace than any other industry in Massachusetts — and creating more jobs than in any other state since 2008.
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