A year after breaking ground, Boeing’s getting ready for a ceremonial ribbon cutting at its new $80,000,000 facility in Oklahoma City. Governor Mary Fallin will help take part in Friday morning’s event dedicating Boeing’s new engineering, research and development lab.
Building 84-301 is located at 6811 SE 59th street and the ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. It is 300,000 square feet in size and expands the company’s Oklahoma footprint which includes nearly 2,500 employees. About 800 will work at the new lab where technologies for such plans as the C-17 Globemaster III and the AWACS will be applied and studied.
Construction on the building started one year ago this month. Among Boeing executives to be on hand are Ed Dolanski, President of Global Sales and Support; Scott Strode, VP and General Manager of Aircraft Modernization and Sustainment; and OKC Site Director Mike Emmelhainz, who is VP of Large Aircraft Engineering and Sustainment.
