Irving (WBAP/KLIF News) – McKesson Corporation has opened a $157 million expansion of its campus in Irving. McKesson is a medical records company based in San Francisco.
“Texas long has been known as an energy state, and we still are,” says Governor Greg Abbott, who attended the opening Thursday. “But Texas is swiftly becoming known as the key innovation state in the country, with health and life sciences being the core of that future.”
McKesson’s chief executive says Abbott called him directly, offering “whatever we can” to attract the company to Texas.
“It meant something to me that I’d have your commitment and your involvement,” John Hammergren says. “It’s a phone call I didn’t get from some of our competing states. It’s a phone call I didn’t get from the state where some of our people are coming from.”
“You all know that roadway from California to Texas is a one-way street,” Abbott said.
Hammergren says McKesson chose Texas because it could offer a skilled workforce with less regulation.
McKesson employs 1,200 people in Irving now. With the expanded campus, the company says that number could grow to 2,500. The campus in Irving provides information technology, accounting and project management.
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