Quest Plans New Lab in Former H-P Space

MARLBOROUGH, MA-Quest Diagnostics said Wednesday it had finalized a 200,000-square-foot lease to build a clinical laboratory at the former Hewlett-Packard campus here. A Quest spokesman did not respond to GlobeSt.com’s requests for further information on the deal, which occurred in tandem with the diagnostic information provider’s acquisition of two business units of UMass Memorial Medical Center.

Both units—UMass Memorial’s clinical outreach laboratory business and its anatomic pathology outreach laboratory business, both based in Worcester, MA—will relocate to the new Marlborough facility upon its completion. Quest also plans to move its existing full-service clinical laboratory in Cambridge, MA and its Athena Diagnostics specialty neurology testing subsidiary in Worcester to the new facility, according to a release.