Mer­ck KGaA blue­prints a $115M 'col­lab­o­ra­tion cam­pus' for Mass­a­chu­setts

Mer­ck KGaA is join­ing the glob­al mi­gra­tion to the greater Boston biotech hub.

The Ger­man bio­phar­ma is build­ing a new life sci­ences cam­pus in Burling­ton, styling the 280,000-square-foot fa­cil­i­ty as a “cus­tomer col­lab­o­ra­tion lab­o­ra­to­ry and train­ing cen­ter.” And it’s one of 9 col­lab­o­ra­tion com­plex­es planned for Brazil, Chi­na, France, In­dia, Sin­ga­pore and South Ko­rea.

The com­pa­ny is spend­ing $115 mil­lion on the project, with room left for a 70,000-square-foot ad­di­tion, if it needs it. Mer­ck’s sub­sidiary, Mil­li­pore­Sig­ma, will re­lo­cate its 850 full-time Bil­ler­i­ca-based em­ploy­ees when con­struc­tion is com­plete in the sec­ond half of 2017.

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