December 10, 2015
New Jersey Officials See Hope for Jobs in Seton Hall’s Medical School Plan
New Jersey was once so chock-full of thriving pharmaceutical companies that it was known as America’s medicine chest. An
exodus has left officials in the state scrambling to find ways to fill the voids. Hotels? Condos? Yet another shopping mall? Instead of going down any of those predictable paths, officials are pinning their hopes on something completely different: the state’s first private medical school in more than 60 years. The school, a joint venture of Seton Hall University and Hackensack University Health Network, would be the anchor tenant of a 119-acre site that for decades had been occupied by Hoffman-La Roche, a pioneering pharmaceutical company now known as Roche.
exodus has left officials in the state scrambling to find ways to fill the voids. Hotels? Condos? Yet another shopping mall? Instead of going down any of those predictable paths, officials are pinning their hopes on something completely different: the state’s first private medical school in more than 60 years. The school, a joint venture of Seton Hall University and Hackensack University Health Network, would be the anchor tenant of a 119-acre site that for decades had been occupied by Hoffman-La Roche, a pioneering pharmaceutical company now known as Roche.