Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin gifts a state flag to Lilly Medicine Company CEO Dave Ricks during a manufacturing site announcement on Sep. 16, 2025. Photo by Charlotte Rene Woods/Virginia Mercury
Amtrak trains arrived and departed Tuesday morning at Richmond’s Main Street Station as state and local lawmakers announced pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly will construct a $5 billion manufacturing facility in Virginia that is slated to bring hundreds of jobs to the region and cement the state’s place in America’s pharmaceutical supply chain.
“Virginia has infrastructure, transportation networks, utilities, a digital economy to support us, and all those things are just vital to a complex operation like the one we’re setting up here,” Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks said…