InterTech Park
BRF maintains and promotes the InterTech Park, an urban Brownfields, smart growth initiative surrounding the Mansfield Road/Kings Highway intersection in Shreveport. InterTech Park is home to BRF operations and divisions, its initiatives and research entities, local high-tech companies, commercial laboratories, and startups. The park is part of Shreveport’s Healthcare and Development Corridor along Kings Highway from I-49 to I-20.
About InterTech Park
Initiated in 1997 by community leaders to provide specialized facilities with laboratory, cleanroom, manufacturing and office space for high tech companies, the Intertech Park’s several BRF-owned and -operated properties support services for their tenants. The resident companies represent such industries as pharmaceutical manufacturing and research, digital and entertainment media, information technology, venture capital support, and environmental research and product development.
BRF Facilities
- The Virginia K. Shehee Biomedical Research Institute, a 160,000 square foot research facility with 56 laboratories where 200 investigators and technicians from LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport conduct basic research.
- InterTech’s central facility, InterTech 1, is a 60,000 square foot facility that houses BRF headquarters and is an incubator for new bioscience and technology businesses.
- A 33,000 square foot biomanufacturing facility with laboratory and cleanroom manufacturing space.
- The new Center for Molecular Imaging and Therapy (CMIT), a 20,000 square foot facility housing expanded radiopharmaceutical production operations, patient imaging services and a clinical and translational research program.
Our Tenants
Resident companies represent such industries as pharmaceutical, digital and entertainment media, drug discovery, venture capital support, and environmental research and product development.
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MISSION
Diversify and grow our region’s economy.
VISION
Operate as a catalyst to expand and develop research, entrepreneurship and high-growth businesses in our region.
VALUES
Innovation. Collaboration. Problem Solving. Bold Action.
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