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Eli Lilly to build 1.2 million sq. ft. ‘Medicine Foundry’ near Lebanon; partners outline timeline, traffic and neighbor outreach
Summary
Eli Lilly’s Medicine Foundry—a 1.2 million-square-foot research campus—will be built off State Road 32 near Lebanon. Project and construction partners described a phased schedule aiming for major production capacity by December 2027, traffic changes on State Road 32 and County Road 200, local hiring and a community outreach program.
Eli Lilly is building a 1,200,000-square-foot research campus called the Medicine Foundry off State Road 32 near Lebanon, and project partners say much of the campus should be producing research output by December 2027.
That timeline and other project details were described on episode 2-15 of the Lebanon City communications podcast by Joe LePage, Lebanon’s communications and community development director; Jeff Lewis, site and program director for the project; and Matt Camparotto, vice president of corporate marketing for FA Wilhelm (a Foundry Partners joint-venture firm).
“The governor was in town...a whole bunch of folks from different universities,” Joe LePage said, describing the recent groundbreaking. Matt Camparotto said the Medicine Foundry will function as “basically a research and development campus for Lilly,” focused on discovery of new molecules, biologics and related chemistry.
Jeff Lewis described the campus as a single…
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