Located at the center of a world-renowned region of innovation and technology, Durham County provides a strong foothold for organization growth and longevity. We are committed to economic growth in a responsible and beneficial way to all our constituents, and our history has shown this to be a successful strategy. Durham County has received numerous accolades around our environment, entrepreneurship, and economy that continue to bring new and growing businesses to our area.

As part of Durham County’s business recruitment efforts to bring large-scale jobs projects and significant capital investment to increase the County’s tax base, Durham County partners with companies and state and local partners to bring jobs and investment projects to Durham. Below is a list of active Economic Development partnerships that include relevant agreement details.

Find briefing sheets from recently announced projects here:

• Kempower Inc.
• Eli Lilly and Company
• Catalent, Inc.
• Jaguar Gene Therapy
• Smart Wires Inc.
• CARsgen Therapeutics 
• Taysha Gene Therapies
• The Clorox Company
• BioAgilytix Labs, LLC
• Beam Therapeutics 
• GRAIL, Inc.
• Eli Lilly and Company
• Q Squared Solutions
• Policygenius Inc.
• AveXis

 

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Summary of Active Business Recruitment Projects

All awards to commercial partners are performance-based and payment is only made following the achievement and verification of the project's scheduled jobs, investment and related criteria on an annual basis.

Summary of Active Project Performance as of 1-15-23