Ab­b­Vie hatch­es plans for a ma­jor new R&D hub close to its part­ners in Bay Area's buzzy Oys­ter Point

Ab­b­Vie has signed on to be the first ten­ant of a mas­sive new re­search cen­ter in Oys­ter Point, join­ing a flock of bio­phar­ma peers that’s set up shop in the in­creas­ing­ly pop­u­lar South San Fran­cis­co neigh­bor­hood.

The North Chica­go, IL-based drug­mak­er — whose Stem­cen­tryx sub­sidiary has an op­er­a­tion in the area — is leas­ing al­most 480,000 square feet in the Gate­way of Pa­cif­ic, a 1.4 mil­lion square foot cam­pus un­der con­struc­tion by Bio­Med Re­al­ty. Ink­ing a deal for 10 years, Ab­b­Vie will oc­cu­py a 12-sto­ry tow­er in a space that could even­tu­al­ly hold 1,500 work­ers, the San Fran­cis­co Busi­ness Times re­port­ed.

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