Six weeks have passed since the announcement that AstraZeneca would be investing $4.5 billion at Albemarle’s Rivanna Futures property. The county’s Economic Development Authority got a briefing on November 18.
“It’s sort of one biopharmaceutical manufacturing campus,” said Emily Kilroy, the county’s economic development director. “There’s actually two manufacturing facilities that are part of AstraZeneca’s plan.”
Albemarle purchased around 462 acres of land around the Rivanna Station military base in late 2023 for what had been described earlier that year as an “Intelligence Community Innovation Acceleration Campus.” Since then, Albemarle County has rezoned part of the land and secured funds to get it ready for development…