Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker signs bill allowing unused Worcester land to become biomanufacturing site
Worcester is closer to having a biomanufacturing industrial park that could bring over 500 jobs to Central Massachusetts.
A bill signed by Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday allows the state to sell 44 acres of unused land on the former Worcester State Hospital campus. The Worcester Business Development Corporation (WBDC) plans to develop the land into a biomanufacturing site.
The first tenant could be LakePharma, a pharmaceutical company in California.
With Worcester area lawmakers and business leaders gathered around his desk, Baker said the effort is a "terrific representation of people's ability to be opportunistic when presented with an equally terrific possibility to do something really big."
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