Investment in the Downtown Phoenix Bioscience sector continues to grow with a major announcement by Mayor Gordon and plans for a new medical lab.
In his recent State of the City Address, Mayor Gordon announced that investor Patrick Soon-Shiong plans to locate his newest non-profit venture, the Institute for Advanced Health, in Downtown Phoenix. The institute will be the largest healthcare data center in the world and will house a central database designed to improve communication between providers, patients and researchers.
For more information please read: Gordon: Phoenix Lands Supercomputer Venture.
In other Biomedical news, on April 7 the Downtown, Aviation and Economy Subcommittee voted to allow the City of Phoenix to begin negotiating a lease for vacant land on the Biomedical Campus. Boyer Company plans to build a new medical lab building that may add an additional 150,000 square feet of lab space to the area. The Arizona Republic also reports that the City signed a letter of intent with Boyer in March. For more information please read: Plans for Downtown Medical Lab Advance.
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