Arizona Business Daily
Office of the Arizona Governor Doug Ducey issued the following announcement on Oct. 3.
Officials from Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), a leading global medical technology company, were joined today by Governor Doug Ducey, Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell and representatives of The Boyer Company to officially break ground on the new I.D.E.A. (Innovation, Discovery, Education and Arts) Tempe campus.
BD Peripheral Intervention will be the first business to move to the new campus that is focused on attracting new technology companies to Tempe. BD Peripheral Intervention develops and manufactures innovative endovascular devices that provide critical interventions to help improve blood circulation for patients with peripheral artery disease, end-stage kidney disease and cancer.
“BD will be the first company to locate on the I.D.E.A. campus, and we are so proud to have BD and its employees grow in our community,” said Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell. “The I.D.E.A. Tempe campus is designed to create a place where the brightest people in science can create and collaborate together. The space also offers exposure to the arts and instant access to the finest outdoor urban recreation area this state has to offer.”
