New dose of jobs from AstraZeneca

BOULDER — Good things are sometimes a long time in coming, and so it seems to be with the promised presence of AstraZeneca PLC, which at least partially could replace the loss of Amgen production in Boulder County last year.

The London-based pharmaceutical giant (NYSE: AZN) bought Amgen’s LakeCentre manufacturing facility in Boulder in September, and hopes were high here that the site eventually could employ as many as 400 people. That was seen as a welcome replacement to the more than 600 jobs lost to the county biopharmaceutical workforce by the closing of two Amgen facilities…