OKLAHOMA CITY — The City Council on Tuesday will consider an economic development incentive for new medical research facilities that promise to create more than 400 new-to-market quality jobs over the next seven years.

ARL Bio Pharma , a contract laboratory that provides analytical and microbiological testing for the pharmaceutical industry, plans a $46.7 million expansion in Oklahoma City that is projected to have an economic impact of nearly $1 billion over the first 10 years.

The company already occupies 96,000 square feet of space in the University Research Park on the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center campus where it employs more than 450 people.

“This is a great company, and we are glad that they are keeping their jobs and expanding here,” Kenton Tsoodle

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