PORT ST. LUCIE, FLA.
The Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute opened its $47 million research facility in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on February 29, 2012. Located in the Tradition Center for Innovation, the four-story, 100,000-sf building houses advanced laboratories for the study of immunology and infectious diseases. The general contractor for the project was Whiting-Turner of Tampa. Ground was broken on the facility in October of 2010.