On Sept. 12, 2005, David H. Murdock announced a $1.5 billion scientific and economic revitalization project called the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC).

On February 23, 2006, groundbreaking was held for the first building of the NCRC, the 311,000-square-foot David H. Murdock Core Laboratory.

David H. Murdock is chairman, CEO and major shareholder of Dole Food Company, a Fortune 500 company, and chairman, CEO and owner of Castle & Cooke, a private company.