More jobs in Albemarle = stable, if not improving housing market. More people who will probably be moving into or around the 29 North Corridor (archived: 2015).
Albemarle will be the new home of a biotech manufacturing facility. A firm called PBM, or Princeton BioMeditech Corporation, will create 115 jobs with a $7 million investment at the University of Virginia Research Park.
From WINA (no longer available) and the DP (no longer available).
If anybody reading this is affiliated with this company, I would be happy to help its employees relocate to the area. Please email me if you would like a relocation package.
Biotech is a great industry to have – read more here (archived: 2007) – “So what could be better than an industry that attracts few outsiders, requires little space, preserves those beautiful Blue Ridge vistas and utilizes the community’s most important resource — the University of Virginia?”
DP has and updated story (no longer available).
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