City vote paves way for access to new labs

On grassy fields along U.S. 63 south of Columbia, just before the town limit sign, ABC Laboratories is building new pharmaceutical labs in Discovery Ridge Research Park. The building is set to open early next year, but one thing might hinder business: There is currently no road leading there. The only way to reach what will become a 90,000-square-foot analytical laboratory for pharmaceutical development is by following the deep tracks of bulldozers in a dirt road.