Alachua County leaders joined RTI Surgical at the ribbon-cutting for its new Logistics and Technology Center on Tuesday (July 21).
The completion of the $14 million, 41,000-square-foot building demonstrates the impact of RTI in the area. That presence includes employing 570 workers at the Progress Park in Alachua — part of the company’s global workforce of 1,100.
The building brings the company’s total local space to 200,000 square feet, a 25 percent increase.
Beyond its size, the building has made it possible for RTI to advance healing through its unique map3® cellular allogeneic bone graft implants.
“For the first time, orthopedic surgeons can use living mapc-class cells along with a bone scaffold to support the body’s innate healing mechanism,” said Carrie Hartill, RTI.
The new implants are important for patients whose healing processes are impaired because of aging and diabetes, she said.
“This building also brings together our research labs that were spread out over several buildings, and it provides space to meet our future needs,” she added.
Mitch Glaeser, the immediate past chair of the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce, applauded the building and the scientific advancement of map3.
“RTI changes lives, illustrating the global impact of companies rooted in the Gainesville area and grown in the Gainesville area,” he said.