MERRIFIELD, VA—Inova Health Systems, Northern Virginia's largest health care provider, is reportedly in acquisition talks with Exxon Mobil about the oil company's 117-acre campus here.
The discussions, which are in the early stages, are centered on making a new home for Inova's Translational Medicine Institute, according to the Washington Business Journal. Another source told the newspaper that Inova could also relocate its cancer center to the property that is located off the Capital Beltway at Route 50 and across the street from Inova Fairfax Hospital.
Exxon Mobil intends to leave the campus in late 2015, moving many of the Fairfax County jobs to Houston. Spokesmen for both Inova and Exxon Mobil refused comment on the talks concerning the Merrifield campus.
“They've been going back and forth and back and forth,” says one source. “The initial offer was an insult to Exxon. But now (Inova) is the only one that they're focused on. They're not talking to anybody else.” See story in the Washington Business Journal.
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