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U-M To Buy Pfizer's Former
Ann Arbor Property
From U-M News Service
The former Pfizer property at Plymouth Road and Huron Parkway looking South.
Photo courtesy Dale Fisher Heli-Photo ©2009.
In a move that will directly create at least 2,000 jobs during the next decade and accelerate expansion of the University of Michigan's research activities critical to the state's economic development, the U-M Board of Regents approved the purchase of the Ann Arbor property of pharmaceutical firm Pfizer Inc.
In time, U-M anticipates replacing—and even exceeding—the number of high-quality jobs once located at the site.
The nearly 174-acre site, which includes almost 2 million square feet of laboratory and administrative space in 30 buildings, is ideal for the University's growing research activities in health, biomedical sciences and other disciplines.