Industry News

Tellabs Inc. is considering expansion of its facilities in Massachusetts. The Lisle, Ill.-based telephone equipment company is headquartered in Burlington, but has received a proposal from Boston properties Inc. to build two buildings in Andover totaling over 200,000 sf.

Serono Laboratories Inc., based in Norwell, Mass., plans to consolidate its offices and labs at a new $20 million, 200,000-sf headquarters that will straddle the town line between Hingham and Rockland. A.W. Perry Inc. of Boston is the developer on the project. Construction has not yet begun, but move-in is scheduled for late 2000.

Serono Labs is a drug-development company and a subsidiary of Ares-Serono Group SA of Geneva, Switz.

Cisco Systems Inc. is in the process of obtaining zoning for a planned 2.3 million-sf office and R&D facility on 153 acres in the Alviso community of North San Jose. About 10 buildings are planned, with construction occuring in two phases: 1.6 million sf in phase one, and 600,000 sf in phase two.

Groundbreaking, contingent upon approval by the San Jose City Council, could begin in late spring or early summer 2000, with occupancy 16 months later. Construction costs are estimated at $575 million.

Cisco Systems Inc. is planning a $1 billion R&D complex at the Coyote Valley Research Park. Construction is scheduled to begin in summer 2000 on the 6.6 million-sf project, with completion anticipated in 2002. DivcoWest Properties Inc. of San Jose and Gibson Speno Co. are joint developers of the 365-acre campus.

Cisco is currently building a $100 million, 1.1 million-sf project--Site 5--in nearby Milpitas. September 2000 is the scheduled completion date for the project, which was designed and built by San Jose's DevCon Construction Inc.

Stanford University has a new four-story Center for Clinical Science Research, designed by Ove Arup & Partners of San Francisco to withstand a major earthquake. The facility incorporates base isolators designed by Earthquake Protection Systems Inc. of Richmond, Calif.