As one manufacturer opens $15M Pasco facility, another closes

A Colorado compound pharmacy opened in Pasco County spec space days after a Dade City bottler announced it was closing.

By Louis Llovio
| 11:45 a.m. June 10, 2024
| 0 Free Articles Remaining!

Asturia Corporate Center, a 235,000-square-foot flex-industrial, is one of several spec projects in the county using loans from money generated from Penny for Pasco.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

Belmar Pharma Solutions, a Colorado-based compounding pharmacy, has opened a facility in Pasco County and will add 150 jobs in the next three years.

The good news for the county was tempered by the announcement late last week that global bottler and distributor Refresco was shutting its Dade City plant and laying off 42 employees.

As for Belmar, the 25,000-square-foot compounding facility is in the Asturia Corporate Center. According to the Pasco Economic Development Council, the company has invested $15 million in the building, where it will produce compounded medications and other products.