![]() Orders come into the lab from all over the world to meet specific research demands, and Cole says that bodes well for Ellsworth. It is estimated that the facility will generate more than 500,000 mice representing 10,000 different varieties, depending on a client's needs. It will also expand the company’s mouse export business. That means the city will now begin to attract a new type of worker to the research center, named for JAX's Executive Vice President Charles Hewitt. ![]() ![]() "Of course we want to continue to be that service-center, but this project gives us the opportunity to diversify," Cole said. But the new mouse-breeding facility may signal a new chapter in the story of the city's future economic development. They also think that the community is poised to benefit from what they hope will be an expanding bio-tech development corridor.Įllsworth City Manager David Cole says that his community has always embraced its role as a service-centered community for the Downeast region. Over the next eight years the facility is expected to create up to 350 jobs, and local officials are hailing the new lab as the largest single development project the city has seen in recent years.
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