![]() Since the purchase was a target of opportunity, the university has not yet decided just how the property will be used. ![]() I think it’s going to have enormous implications for the university in the long run.” “This is a once-in-a-century opportunity,” says Yale president Rick Levin. Yale had not been actively seeking such a large expansion, but when Bayer announced in November that it was leaving-and when efforts by government and business leaders to find another pharmaceutical company to take over the site proved fruitless-administrators decided the chance was too good to pass up. It contains 17 buildings totaling around 1.3 million square feet, including three state-of-the-art laboratory buildings, office space, and a large warehouse/factory space. The site, alongside Interstate 95 and seven miles from Yale’s central campus, straddles the West Haven-Orange town line. The purchase will give Yale 550,000 square feet of new laboratory space, allowing for an unexpectedly rapid expansion of Yale’s biomedical research initiatives. The university announced in June that it will buy a 136-acre research campus in West Haven, Connecticut, that is being vacated by Bayer Healthcare. The Yale campus is about to get 43 percent bigger. ![]() The content of the magazine and its website is the responsibility of the editors and does not necessarily reflect the views of Yale or its officers. The Yale Alumni Magazine is owned and operated by Yale Alumni Publications, Inc., a nonprofit corporation independent of Yale University. Yale Alumni Magazine: Light & Verity (July/Aug 2007)
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