Indeed, at one point in 2016-17, Google was a rumored potential buyer of the gorgeous Whitehouse Station campus. But that fell through.
Here over 13 years later, it seems Merck finally has a buyer for Hassan's Kenilworth palace. And so, Merck has returned to the place George Merck picked out, in the then woods near Rahway, New Jersey about three-quarters of a century ago. All the old buildings have been plussed up, to be sure -- but it has. . . returned to "Dad's" (sorta' On Walden Pond). . . home.
And that, it strikes me, is fitting. Here's that Saturday "slow news day" story -- from FiercePharma, sounding more like a local outlet:
. . .Three years after Merck & Co. unveiled a headquarters pivot back to its old stomping grounds in Rahway, New Jersey, the company is bidding goodbye to its previous Garden State home base.
Merck has reached a deal with real estate business Onyx Equities to sell its 108-acre campus in Kenilworth, New Jersey, where the drug behemoth relocated its main digs back in 2015. For 23 years before that, Merck was based in nearby Whitehouse Station. . . .
[All as] Merck [departs] Kenilworth in phases. . . [as it now] completes an expansion at its [newly renovated] headquarters in Rahway, the company explained in a release. . . .
Of course, each of these three recent moves had rather significant effects on the local public schools -- and so on, since the tax base either shot upward, or dropped off a cliff -- as Merck arrived, in full. . . or decamped. In addition, local lunch spots, gas stations and the like will either proliferate or. . . die out. Onward, smiling -- but now you know.
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