Thursday, July 12, 2018

[U] Merck Has A Buyer — Under Contract (AGAIN!), For Old Whitehouse Station HQ...


As it last did in early 2015 (we've been following HQ moves for a decade on Merck and legacy Schering-Plough) -- Merck is once again "under contract" on the one million square foot behemoth of a former HQ, one it abandoned in favor of the Kenilworth one (built by "Fast" Fred Hassan, at Schering-Plough).

I’m already on the road, so no graphics, but this is good news.

Mr. Frazier has apparently convinced Unicom to purchase the abandoned HQ.

Now you know. Let’s hope it closes.

नमस्ते

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

since your always posting space novelties~~

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/12/world/neutrino-blazar-cosmic-ray-discovery/index.html

pretty cool~~~pun intended.

travel safely

condor said...

Most triumphant! Thanks — namaste!

Anonymous said...

The billion dollar building is certainly impressive.

Merck made a big deal about their moving trees so they wouldn't be destroyed when they built the building.

But when you go inside everything is matched tropical hardwoods, desks, file cabinets, 9 foot doors.

condor said...

Yes. Avoiding ironic moves was not a long suit of most multinational pharmacos in that era, in my experience.

The CEO of Abbott, int he bad old days, tried to drive off with multiple pieces of original art, on his last day. Art bought by the company -- for the company. . . into the high hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Precious. Security stopped it.

[And Confidential, to Anon. No 1: ". . .Each messenger -- from electromagnetic radiation, gravitational waves and now neutrinos -- gives us a more complete understanding of the universe, and important new insights into the most powerful objects and events in the sky. Such breakthroughs are only possible through a long-term commitment to fundamental research and investment in superb research facilities. . . ."

But only if we all agree that what qualifies as science is NOT to be determined by. . . "local community standards", in rural Alabama -- or any other single community (i.e., not made up of real, credentialed scientists).

Namaste. . . .]