Big Pharma’s Billion-Dollar Bet: Inside Eli Lilly’s $5B Virginia Factory and America’s New Drug Manufacturing Boom
Eli Lilly’s forthcoming Richmond-area factory is set to be one of the largest and most advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing sites in the world. At a cost of $5 billion, Lilly will construct a high-tech production campus in Goochland County’s West Creek Business Park, a site that had been prepped for a previous project and now deemed “the perfect spot” for fast construction Washingtonpost. The facility’s core mission: make more of the critical drug ingredients that Lilly usually sources overseas, right here on U.S. soil Washingtonpost Washingtonpost.
