Charles Dickens’ opening line of A Tale of Two Cities—“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”—was evoked recently by the head of the nation’s largest life sciences real estate owner to describe the past year for the industry served by his real estate investment trust.
Image: Sanofi recently sold its 310,000-square-foot Allston plant built by its Genzyme subsidiary to Resilience, a San Diego-based provider of biopharma manufacturing services, which has offered jobs to all 250 staffers and is planning to expand headcount. Boston and neighboring Cambridge, MA, anchor a regional biopharma cluster that remains the nation’s retains its top ranking in GEN’s top-10 list despite signs of growing strength from its closest competing regions. (National Resilience Inc. via Business Wire)
