(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – A sign for Eli Lilly & Co. stands outside their corporate headquarters in Indianapolis on April 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allentown, PA) Governor Josh Shapiro and Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development (DCED) Secretary Rick Siger announced today that Pennsylvania has secured a $3.5 billion private-sector investment from global pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly and Company to build a new, state-of-the-art pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Lehigh County. Lilly is purchasing a site in Fogelsville and their investment is the largest by a life sciences company in the history of Pennsylvania. The expansion project will make at least 850 new jobs over the next five years and will continue growing the robust pharmaceutical and life sciences industries of Pennsylvania. This will also be the first Lilly manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania and it represents a long-term commitment to the state from one of the world’s leading drugmakers and it is supported by Commonwealth investment of $100 million.