Garo Armen, Agenus CEO

Agenus to move Cal­i­for­nia op­er­a­tions to new bio­man­u­fac­tur­ing clus­ter in Va­cav­ille

In Oc­to­ber 2020, Va­cav­ille, CA launched a mas­sive bio­man­u­fac­tur­ing clus­ter that is ex­pect­ed to bring in 10,000 jobs and $2 bil­lion in de­vel­op­ment. Genen­tech had al­ready es­tab­lished its head­quar­ters in the city 50 miles north­east of San Fran­cis­co in 1994.

Now, the com­pa­ny will get a neigh­bor from the East Coast.

Lex­ing­ton, MA-based Agenus has bought a 120-acre lot near the ex­ist­ing Genen­tech fa­cil­i­ty and plans to build its own fa­cil­i­ty of 400,000 square feet, the San Fran­cis­co Busi­ness Times re­port­ed Wednes­day. It will help fill the void in the man­u­fac­tur­ing space that was opened up when a No­var­tis fa­cil­i­ty shut down in 2015 and then a J&J plant in 2019.

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