The major move by the agribusiness company will add more labs, growth chambers and officers to its Chesterfield Village Research Center.
Chesterfield will be at the heart of a $400 million expansion announced by agribusiness giant Monsanto today as it seeks to add more plant growth chambers, offices and laboratory space to its Chesterfield Village Research center over the next three years. The company announced the major news Tuesday and in a press release said the project will add 675 jobs to the already 1,000 positions at the Chesterfield site. The new facilities will be aimed at developing the company’s seed and trait pipeline while allowing for coloration among researches to find ways to make agriculture more productive and sustainable. “Monsanto has pledged to help those in agriculture find new ways to produce more while using less of our globes resources,” said …
The company said it had not made any decisions to change or expand the Chesterfield Village Research Center after a report surfaced earlier this week that a new building was in the works.
Monsanto is denying a report that surfaced earlier this week that it was planning to construct a new 400,000-square-foot facility on its Chesterfield Village Research Center Campus. The rumor appeared in an article on NextSTL.com, which cited unnamed sources and said McCarthy Building Companies and Cannon Design had been selected to provide “preconstruction services.” Patch reached out to Monsanto, who provided the following statement: “We are constantly looking at opportunities to improve our facilities, but we have not made any decisions to change or expand our Chesterfield Village Research Center location.” Likewise, officials with the city of Chesterfield’s planning department said they had not received any applications from Monsanto …
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Geoff Whittington
12:51 pm on Tuesday, April 23, 2013
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