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Bioscience Firm Plans to Double Foster City Campus to 1.2MSF
May 5, 2008

Gilead Sciences Inc. is making big expansion plans at its Foster City compound, the San Francisco Examiner reports. According to city Planning Commission records, Gilead is seeking the green light to increase the size of its 17-building campus of office and laboratory space from about 630,000 square feet to 1.2 million square feet. The biopharmaceutical company acquired the property from Equity Office Properties Trust for $123 million in 2003, when it consisted of 16 buildings with an aggregate 500,000 square feet.


 
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