Blood Money: Johnson City Plasma Center Preparing to Open

The competition for blood plasma will be heating up in the Binghamton area with the impending opening of a second Broome County collection facility.

Texas-based ImmunoTek Plasma is setting up shop in the former Save-A-Lot building at 200 Main Street in Johnson City.

The grocery store lost its lease and was forced to close in the fall of 2022. The building was sold for $950,000 early last year.

ImmunoTek representatives have not returned calls in recent weeks seeking information about the new Johnson City blood plasma collection site.

Construction crews spent the last several months remodeling the building. Most of the work apparently has been completed, although it isn't known whether furniture and equipment are in place.

The future plasma collection center is located between the Victory Lofts apartment complex and the Binghamton University Health Sciences Campus.

Some people who donate plasma are paid hundreds of dollars a month. ImmunoTek has not announced what it will pay donors at the Johnson City site.

ImmunoTek opened its first New York state donation center in Queensbury last July. The company also is planning to set up a facility in North Syracuse.

CSL Plasma opened Broome County's first donate-for-pay collection center at a former thrift store site on Hooper Road in Endwell in July 2019.

When that facility was launched, the company said donors could receive up to $300 a month.

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