Industry News

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts has chosen Boston's Payton Construction Corp. to manage the build-out of the company's new 380,000-sf corporate headquarters at Landmark Center. Architects Margulies & Associates and Shooshanian Engineering are also working on the headquarters.

Akami Technologies Inc. plans to relocate to a new 108,000-sf state-of-the-art headquarters currently under construction at the former 1960's-era Polaroid Corp. office complex, which will house as many as 500 employees.

The Internet technology company envisions their offices designed to resemble the heart of the Internet. Akami has chosen Margulies & Associates of Boston to design and oversee the project.

National Museum of the American Indian, the Smithsonian's tenth museum on Capital Mall, began construction in September. The new five-story, $110 million museum is scheduled to open in 2002 and will focus on American Indians in the Western Hemisphere, including over 1,000 Indian communities.

Keystone Mercy has outgrown its 200,000-sf build-to-suit headquarters currently under construction in Conshohocken, and will instead lease an additional building for its headquarters at the Airport Business Center in Lester, where most of its operations are housed.

University of Texas at San Antonio has begun construction of a $30 million, 127,500-sf building to expand its facilities for day, evening, and weekend classes. Classrooms, labs, student services facilities, and administrative/faculty offices will be housed in the new four-level structure. Completion is anticipated in early 2001.