KANNAPOLIS, N.C.
The North Carolina Research Campus celebrated the opening of three buildings on its 350-acre life sciences campus in Kannapolis in October of 2008. The $1.5 billion project was designed by Narmour Wright Creech Architecture and developed by Castle & Cooke. The campus includes the 311,000-sf Murdock Core Lab which features a basement vivarium housing 48,000 rodents. The $200 million Murdock Core Lab was built by general contractor Turner Construction and houses a genomics lab, a GMP biologics manufacturing facility, and three NMR instruments.