The first wave of University of Michigan employees is getting ready to crash into the old Pfizer campus. The university has selected about 300 staff to move into what is now called the North Campus Research Complex.
These will be far from the last to move into the 2 million-square-foot facility at the corner of Huron Parkway and Plymouth Road. The 174-acre property, which features 30 buildings, will become the home to a mix of researchers and staff from both the university and local businesses.
The employees, which will make the move this spring, are coming from single-story office buildings at the corner of Huron and Plymouth roads. The campus is expected to eventually house thousands of university personnel and students, including staff from the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research, the Medical School's Institutional Review Board, the Office of Medical Development and Alumni Relations, the development and clinical trials offices for the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Clinical Research Billing.
Pfizer occupied this space until it announced it would leave it to consolidate operations elsewhere in 2007. The university bought it last year for $108 million.
Source: University of Michigan
Writer: Jon Zemke
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