Business & Tech
First Set of Plans Submitted for Monsanto's $400 million Expansion
The agriculture giant is making a major investment to upgrade its Chesterfield Village Research Center.
Monsanto is moving forward on its $400 million expansion in Chesterfield and has submitted it's first plans for the project.
The St. Louis Business Journal reported that the company is hoping to begin work this fall on a three-story parking garage that will hold about 1,720 vehicles. The plans were officially submitted to Chesterfield July 10.
Plans for the structure on the agenda at the city's next architectural review board meeting, set for Aug. 8.
The St. Louis Business Journal reported that the company is hoping to begin work this fall on a three-story parking garage that will hold about 1,720 vehicles. The plans were officially submitted to Chesterfield July 10.
Plans for the structure on the agenda at the city's next architectural review board meeting, set for Aug. 8.
The expansion will add 36 new technologically advanced greenhouses capable of being programmed to represent any climate around the world.
Currently, the Chesterfield Village Research Center spans 1.5 million square feet and includes approximately 250 laboratories, 122 plant growth chambers and two acres of greenhouses.
The company said its commercial and corporate teams will continue to occupy its Creve Coeur campus, which also currently houses lab spaces.
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Construction is expected to be completed in 2017, and teams will begin moving to the Chesterfield site in phases beginning at that time.
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