Incyte opens new building with plans for Wilmington Friends campus in the works

Brandon Holveck, Delaware News Journal

February 2, 2022 at 8:27 AM·3 min read

An employee walks by an Incyte company motto banner at the new Incyte headquarters.

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Incyte opens new building with plans for Wilmington Friends campus in the works

Employees moved into a new building at Incyte's Augustine Cut-Off headquarters last week, according to company spokesperson Catalina Loveman.

The expansion adds almost 200,000 square feet of office and lab space to the west of the existing buildings on the Incyte campus. The pharmaceutical maker started the campus in 2014 when it took over the former John Wanamaker building and three years later opened an adjacent office building.

Incyte designed the new building, next to which it also built a parking garage, with the intent of moving all of its employees to the Augustine Cut-Off headquarters. Some of the company's employees worked in leased spaces in Wilmington and Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

After receiving approval for the project in 2019, Incyte also purchased 20 acres of the Wilmington Friends School campus for further expansion. Loveman said the company intends to soon submit exploratory plans for the next expansion to New Castle County for review.

A pre-application sketch plan submitted to the county in 2020 shows three proposed office buildings totaling about 85,000 square feet and a 905-space parking garage.

Once approved, Incyte estimates construction of the expansion on the Friends campus will take 12 to 18 months.

Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream Shop under construction in Middletown

A Haagen-Dazs ice cream store is under construction at the center of Middletown's Main Street.

Owner Jim Henry hopes to open the store in the early spring. Henry also owns the nearby The Dog Stop of Middletown, which offers boarding and grooming services. The ice cream shop's address will be 7 W. Main St.

Harbor Freight Tools coming to Elkton, Maryland

Harbor Freight Tools will open a store in the Big Elk shopping center in Elkton, Maryland later this month.

A soft opening is scheduled for Feb. 8 and an official grand opening is scheduled for Feb. 26, according to Craig Hoffman, director of communications for Harbor Freight.

The store is taking about 15,200 square feet of a shuttered Peebles store. The Big Elk shopping center is off Route 40 about two and a half miles from the Delaware and Maryland border.

Last week in review

Notable projects reviewed by county and city governments in the past week and other developments.

The New Castle County Planning Board reviewed Dermody Properties' plan for 2.1 million square feet of industrial space at Route 301 and Jamison Corner Road in Middletown. Dermody representatives said they do not have any tenants signed on and Amazon is not currently considering the site.
The Newark Planning Commission recommended City Council approve a proposal to build a five-story apartment building at 132 E. Main St. The plan, proposed by local developer George Danneman, is a scaled back version of a previous project that City Council denied.

On the calendar

Development projects of note that will be reviewed in the coming weeks.

Milton Town Council will decide whether to annex 450 acres of farmland on Sand Hill Road for a 1,350-unit housing development called The Granary at Draper Farm.

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Incyte opens new building with plans for Wilmington Friends campus in the works

Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream Shop under construction in Middletown

Harbor Freight Tools coming to Elkton, Maryland

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