LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. – Medicine maker Eli Lilly announced on Friday an investment of $3.5 billion for a planned manufacturing campus in Lehigh County. It continues to make impressions, especially with non-profits and local businesses.<\/p>\n
“There are 55 companies that we actively pursue for sponsorship and support,” said Karen Smith while looking at the long list.<\/p>\n
The CEO of the volunteer center has her sights set on number 56.<\/p>\n
“I just want to say how honored we are to be a part of your community, to join your community, I promise we’ll be a good neighbor,” said Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks during Friday’s announcement inside Allentown’s DaVinci Science Center.<\/p>\n
Ricks highlighted the multinational company’s local philanthropic mission. Billions are giving away each year, and billions are donated yearly.<\/p>\n
For Smith, who’s non-profit supports 400 others in the Lehigh Valley, says corporate handouts sustain the growing community.<\/p>\n
“It could be a funding mechanism for the volunteer center, but it can also be a huge number of people going out in the community and supporting the nonprofits that the need is, is always growing and always changing,” she said.<\/p>\n
For Hops Fogelsville Owner Scott Hoppy, opportunity arrives at a job site, feet from his business front door.<\/p>\n
“I think it\u2019s fantastic. I think it’ll be great for our town of Fogelsville,” he said.<\/p>\n
2,000 temporary construction jobs will build Lilly’s Upper Macungie Township manufacturing facility with 850 permanent 6 figure salary jobs to follow.<\/p>\n
While loss of open space and increased traffic can be consequences of progress.<\/p>\n
The company says for every dollar it spends, a $4 spillover is circulated throughout the community.<\/p>\n
An investment, for now measured in expectations, with the real impact yet to be felt.<\/p>\n
“Anytime there’s change, there’s going to be some growing pains as well, but I’m confident that we have a strong enough community and we’ll be able to figure it all out,” Hoppy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. – Medicine maker Eli Lilly announced on Friday an investment of $3.5 billion for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,28562,50257,1160,10588,1718,50256,157,1881,269,3664],"class_list":["post-104008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-community-impact","tag-corporate-sponsorship","tag-economic-development","tag-eli-lilly","tag-investment","tag-job-creation","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-manufacturing","tag-non-profits","tag-philanthropy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}