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Few buildings in Europe combine GMP manufacturing, laboratories, offices, and housing for scientists. On 1 October I visited one that plans to: SOKAI Hub Gipuzkoa in San Sebastián. [Read the full site visit here.]
We have 10 deals this week, taking in Katwijk council's backing for Eli Lilly's €2.6 billion manufacturing plant and a new drug research centre in Dortmund. Let's race into it.
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🇳🇱 Council backs permit for Lilly's €2.6 billion South Holland plant
🇩🇪 8,000 sq m drug research centre opens in Dortmund
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🇬🇧 Mace to exit £200 million Oxfordshire lab project
🇫🇷 Pierre Fabre to invest €50 million in Occitanie plant
🇸🇪 Science Properties to buy 27,000 sq m Skåne site
🇫🇷 BIOP opens €20 million Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes demonstrator
🇬🇧 COEL refurbishes 21,473 sq ft Essex lab building
🇬🇧 Two South West GP surgeries sold and leased back
🇬🇧 Onyx invests £1.5 million in North East GMP suites
🇩🇪 Intensive care operator signs 10-year Hesse lease
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🇳🇱 Katwijk council backs permit for Eli Lilly's €2.6 billion plant
Katwijk municipal council voted on 1 October 2026 to back the building permit for Eli Lilly's €2.6 billion plant in Zijlhoek-De Woerd, beside the Valkenburgse Meer.
The plant will cover about 20 hectares on a former greenhouse site, with buildings up to 40 metres tall.
It will produce oral diabetes and weight-loss medicines and employ about 500 people.
RED Company, the site's owner, is developing the complex for Eli Lilly.
Separate permits for production and wastewater discharge are still required.
🇩🇪 Dortmund opens 8,000 sq m drug research centre
TechnologieZentrumDortmund opened the Zentrum für integrierte Wirkstoffforschung (ZIW) on 1 October.
The four-storey building at Otto-Hahn-Straße 15 sits next to the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology and extends the Biomedizin Zentrum Dortmund.
It has more than 8,000 sq m of gross floor area and about 3,600 sq m of lettable S1/S2 laboratory and office space for biotech start-ups and young drug development companies, in floors of around 890 sq m that can be divided.
Asking rent is €25.80 per sq m a month, and the scheme received about €6 million in federal and state funding.
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