Elanco Animal Health Incorporated unveiled plans for its new global headquarters featuring environmentally-sustainable, employee-focused design and a innovation center. The company – which grew from a small division of Eli Lilly & Company to a $4.7 billion independent global animal health leader – plans to enter its seventh decade by breathing life into a long-idle site close to its birthplace. Future-focused Design with the Environment and Community in Mind: The planned 220,000 square foot six-story office structure and connected innovation and collaboration buildings will occupy 40 acres of the former General Motors Stamping Plant site on the western edge of the White River, creating a greenspace-forward campus expanding White River State Park.

The glass-faced building, once constructed, will add to the skyline of Indianapolis, pushing downtown west, connecting the Valley neighborhood with the Circle via a walkable, bikeable corridor with a park, a bus route, and enhanced trail system. Influenced by new concepts of working post-pandemic, the campus is designed to create a more comfortable, casual work environment and serve as a destination for Elanco's teams to collaborate with: Leading innovation laboratories. A variety of work settings, including outdoor work areas, to accommodate neurodiversity.

An emphasis on open spaces for teams, customers and partners to connect. Enhanced interior environmental quality incorporating daylight, active circulation paths, and an air quality monitoring system to ensure adequate fresh air. Robust amenities and services designed to accommodate employee flexibility and evolving, personal workstyles while fueling the Elanco culture of ownership and innovation.

Multi-use collaboration building designed to flex according to needs including a destination for major global customer events and scientific meetings. The new headquarters' design also supports Elanco's sustainability pledge, featuring several important environmentally focused sustainability strategies: Planned use of renewable and low-carbon materials such as the timber roof structure, which is designed to avoid nearly 100 tons of emissions. Enhanced stormwater management capacity and native plantings on-site will help to manage on-site water use and build long-term resilience.

Sustainability of Location: Redeveloping an idle space instead of developing grassland or greenspace.