Business & Tech
Massachusetts Pharmaceutical Coming To Oconee County Gateway Business Park
Synageva from Lexington, Mass., is coming to Gateway park on the southwestern edge of Bogart.
A Massachusetts biopharmaceutical company with roots at the University of Georgia has signed a lease for two buildings being completed at Gateway Technology and Business Park in Bogart.
One of the two buildings will be used for production and the other for research, according to plans distributed Monday to the Oconee County Industrial Development Authority, which developed the park and sold the 12-acre site to Rooker Properties LLC last year.
Synageva BioPharma Corp., with headquarters in Lexington, Mass., entered into a lease for the property in October of last year, according to documents filed on Feb. 21 of this year with Angela Elder-Johnson, clerk of the Oconee County Superior Court.
Rusty Haygood, Oconee County economic development director, said today he does not know when Synageva plans to begin operation of the plant but that interior work on the two buildings is underway.
Synageva has not yet applied for water or sewer service, according to Chris Thomas, director of the Oconee County Utility Department, but water and sewer lines are at the site.
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