Pfizer On Its Way Out Of Ann Arbor as facility closes– birthplace of Lipitor

The facility once housed 2100 employees and will be closed soon, down to 100 employees.  One more Pharma Manufacturing facility in the US now a part of history.  BD 

The last Pfizer employee at the company’s research center in Ann Arbor, Mich., will soon turn out the lights and end the long history of the labs that gave birth to Lipitor.

As it hits the road, the drugmaker, for now the biggest taxpayer in the Big 10 college town, is claiming its property there is worth half the amount the taxman says, the Ann Arbor News reports.

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/10/07/on-its-way-out-of-ann-arbor-pfizer-fights-the-tax-man/