Pfizer Employees Evicted From Office Space in Connecticut
The fallout from Pfizer’s purchase of Wyeth last year continues to slog on. Today, Pfizer told 500 scientists who reside in one of three of the company’s office towers in New London, CT that they will be relocated within the next month.
An e-mail message sent to the 500 affected scientists explained that “a business entity with an immediate need for office space has expressed interest in the New London property.” While a Pfizer spokesperson refused the identify the prospective new renter, sources familiar with the situation believe that Electric Boat in Groton, a division of General Dynamics, which previously expressed a need for 50,000 square feet to house a growing engineering department is the likely new client.
The move shouldn’t come as a surprise to the New London scientists because Pfizer announced last year that it would close the 700,000 square-foot former worldwide R&D headquarters by the end of 2011. Most of the company’s 1,400 drug-development employees in New London will move across the Thames River to the company’s research site in Groton. Nevertheless, the indignity of being evicted and forced to relocate by a bunch of engineers must really smart—not that there is anything wrong with engineers!
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