Tuesday’s announcement by pharmaceutical company Covance Inc. that it is taking over the aborted Eli Lilly laboratory outside Manassas breathes new life into a site that was once hailed as a huge development for Prince William County’s job recruitment prospects, but had become an empty, half-completed building.

The 47-acre site, home to the abandoned shell of Lilly’s building, is expected to employ 550 workers in a 410,000-square-foot building, including 450 from nearby Fairfax County.

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