Locator: 49198LILLY.
The string of four pharmaceutical plants appear to be in the $5 billion to $6 billion range.
The first, slated for the Richmond, Virginia, area, at $5 billion was announce earlier this month.
Today, Lilly announced the second location: Houston, Texas. I believe Houston, in the past has been ranked as having the "heaviest, most obese population" in the United States by some surveys. The new plant: $5.9 billion.
The US city with the largest number of overweight / obese individuals (2025): link here.
Texas has six cities on the list, including Houston (#33) and a city in Texas, McAllen, is at the top of the list (#1). Number 2? Little Rock, AR.
California, priding themselves on In-N-Out and encouraging a healthy lifestyle, also have six cities on the list, including two in the sushi belt: San Francisco and San Jose. Having said that, most of the California cities, except for Riverside (#47) are near the bottom of the 100-city list.
It's hard to tell for sure, but it appears that the state with the most cities on the list is North Carolina. The state has ten cities on the list. It includes one of the nation's largest enclave of US Navy (Virginia Beach), as does another US Navy town, San Diego.
States with no cities on the list: North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, West Virginia, Vermont, Delaware.
