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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