Economic development group wins Midwest award for bringing $430M project to Muskegon
MUSKEGON TOWNSHIP, MI — The Greater Muskegon Economic Development group is the winner of the “Large Ecomonic Impact Deal of the Year” award from the Mid-America Economic Development Council.
GMED was nominated for the award by Consumers Energy for bringing a biomedical research company to Muskegon Township, which is building at 168,000-square-foot biomanufacturing campus.
The company, Cytiva, is transforming the former BASF production site at 1720 Whitehall Road. The campus, when completed, will produce material for purifying and analyzing biomolecules for vaccines and therapeutics. The Muskegon Township Cytiva campus is the company’s first chromatography resin manufacturing facility outside of Sweden.
Construction on the Whitehall Road facility will begin in early 2023 with an expected manufacturing state date of 2026. An estimated 200 jobs will be created by the Muskegon Cytiva expansion.
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