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News from November 2001

ARAMARK Completes Acquisition of Facility Services Business from ServiceMaster

DATELINE PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 30, 2001
ARAMARK today announced that it has completed the acquisition of ServiceMaster Management Services, the facility services business of ServiceMaster. 'This acquisition establishes ARAMARK as a leading provider of support services and enables us to bro...
 11.30.01



Abgenix Biotech Manufacturing Facility Planned

DATELINE Research Triangle Park, N.C.
Abgenix Inc. has awarded a biotech manufacturing plant design contract to Clark Richardson & Biskup Consulting Engineers Inc., working with Dowler-Gruman Architects on the project team. An existing shell building will house a ...
 11.29.01



UC Davis Uncorks New Wine Science Institute and Performing Arts Center

DATELINE Davis, Ca.lif.
The University of California-Davis, the world leader in wine science, will be spending $25 million of a $35 million grant to build the new Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science. Replacing buildings 50 years old, the institute will h...
 11.29.01



Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Plans Richmond Lab

DATELINE Richmond, Va.
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals is planning a new 16-researcher R&D lab for pharmaceutical synthesis in Richmond's Virginia Biotechnology Research Park. Over the next five years, Boehringer plans to invest $2.5 million in the facility. ...
 11.29.01



Swarthmore College Expands Science Facilities

DATELINE Swarthmore, Pa.
Swarthmore College is planning a $50 million expansion designed by Einhorn Yaffee Prescott of Boston and built by contractor Barclay White Skanska USA Inc. of Blue Bell, Pa. $40 million will be spent on a total of 140,000 sf in additions and ren...
 11.29.01



Advanced Technology Center at Northwest Vista College

DATELINE San Antonio
Northwest Vista College is planning a new 30,000-sf Advanced Technology Center to house the college's Corporate and Community Development Department. The two-story facility will also house academic functions, providing a biotechnology lab, 5 computer lab...
 11.28.01



UIW Plans New Facilities

DATELINE San Antonio
The University of the Incarnate Word is expanding with a new building providing student housing, conference facilities, a bookstore and a parking garage. The first phase of the 150,000-sf facility is being funded by a $9 million bond issue and is current...
 11.28.01



Host Marriott Relocates To Bethesda's Two Democracy Center

DATELINE Bethesda, Md.
Host Marriott has contracted architect OP-X of Washington to design its newly leased 67,000-sf office at Two Democracy Center in Bethesda. Host, a hotel real estate investment trust, plans to relocate its 250 employees in August 2002....
 11.28.01



Ground Broken on City Museum at Carnegie Library

DATELINE Washington
Ground was broken on the new 60,000-sf City Museum at Carnegie Library, a museum dedicated to chronicling the history of the District of Columbia. Designed by architects Devrouax & Purnell of Washington, the museum is scheduled to open in spring of 2...
 11.28.01



Iomega Moves Headquarters to San Diego

DATELINE San Diego
Iomega Corp. is relocating its corporate headquarters to 10,000 sf in San Diego within the next six months. One hundred marketing and executive staff members will be moved, with the company's R&D operation remaining in Roy, Utah....
 11.28.01



Crozer-Keystone Health System Expands Hospital Facilities

DATELINE Upland, Mass.
Crozer-Keystone Health Systems is expanding three Delaware County hospitals over the next three years as part of a $47 million construction and renovation project. At Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland a 32,000-sf emergency department expansion will...
 11.28.01



H-E-B Plans Safety Testing Facility

DATELINE San Antonio
San Antonio-based chain H-E-B Grocery Co. is planning a 13,500-sf safety and food quality testing facility in Northeast San Antonio. Replacing 5,400 sf of quality assurance lab space, the $3.5 million building will house H-E-B's environment...
 11.28.01



Cypress Semiconductor Installs Solar Energy Systems

DATELINE SAN JOSE, Calif.
Cypress Semiconductor plans to install a $2.1-million, 335-kW solar power array at its new administrative facility in San Jose, providing about 12 percent of Cypress’ energy. The three-story building is scheduled to open in January 2002, and the sol...
 11.23.01



IRS To Occupy New Austin Facility in 2003

DATELINE Austin, Texas
The Internal Revenue Service will have a new 45,504-sf office at SouthTech Business Center, a recently completed 260,000-sf complex in Austin. The building will house offices featuring raised flooring. Parking for 192 vehicles is also included. Move-in is...
 11.23.01



HealthAlliance Hospital Project Complete

DATELINE Leominster, Mass.
A $38 million expansion of the Leominster, Mass. campus of HealthAlliance Hospitals Inc. was recently completed by The George B.H. Macomber Company, a Boston-base construction firm. Designed by DiGiorgio Associates, the project includes a 104,00...
 11.14.01



Convention Center, Hotel and Performing Arts Center in Schauberg

DATELINE Schaumberg, Ill.
The Village of Schaumburg, Ill. has selected John Portman Associates (JP&A) as architect for the new $225 million Convention Center, Hotel and Performing Arts Center. JP&A will serve as the complex's master designer and planner, with HNTB Corporat...
 11.14.01



William Beaumont Hospital Plans Troy West Hospital

DATELINE Troy, Mich.
William Beaumont Hospital's 240,000-sf West Hospital on the Troy, Mich., campus is being designed by HarleyEllis. The $53 million design-build project consists of a five-story structure housing maternal child health, expanded endoscopy and surgical s...
 11.14.01



Britannia Corporate Center Under Construction

DATELINE Otay Mesa, Calif.
Construction has begun on Britannia Corporate Center, a project being developed by Master Development Corporation of Newport Beach, Calif. Designed by Ware Malcomb of San Diego, the project site encompassed 15.9 acres in Otay Mesa. Britannia Corporate Cen...
 11.14.01



Emerson College Plans New College Center and Residence Hall

DATELINE Boston
Emerson College of Boston has selected Cambridge-based Stubbins Associates to design a new College Center and Residence on a recently purchased 14,900-sf parcel. ...
 11.14.01



SDSU's Cuicacalli Residential Suites Completed

DATELINE San Diego
San Diego State University's Cuicacalli Residential Suites and Dining Complex was recently completed by San Diego-based Douglas E. Barnhart and design-build partner Mosher Drew Watson & Ferguson of Point Loma, Calif.. The two 6-story residential ...
 11.14.01



MIT Renovates Centers for Environmental Health and Space Research

DATELINE Boston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston has renovated the Center for Environmental Health to create 15,000 sf of lab and office space. At the Center for Space Research, 18,600 sf was demolished and renovated. Both projects were completed by Shawmu...
 11.14.01



New Lab and Office Facility for Millipore

DATELINE Billerica, Mass.
Bioscience firm Millipore's new two-story, 80,000-sf lab and office facility in Billerica, Mass., has been designed by Boston-based Margulies & Associates; development and construction is by The Gutierrez Co. ...
 11.14.01



Vertex Occupies New Cambridge Biotech Facility

DATELINE Cambridge, Mass.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals has occupied a new 190,000-sf biotech office and lab building in Cambridge. Designed by Somerville-based Arrowstreet Inc., the facility was developed by Lyme Properties LLC.  ...
 11.14.01



Massachusetts College of Art Completes Residence Hall

DATELINE Boston
Massachusetts College of Art's new nine-story, 123,000-sf residence hall was initiated by a topping-off ceremony held by Corjen Construction LLC of Boston. The facility is slated for completion in July of 2002 and will house apartment suites for 306 ...
 11.14.01



New Magna-Lab Headquarters in Lynnfield

DATELINE Lynnfield, Mass.
Magna-Lab opened a new 5,600-sf corporate headquarters in Lynnfield to provide support to its sales and marketing, R&D, engineering, and administrative staff. Magna-Lab Inc. develops products that increase MRI technology effectiveness. ...
 11.14.01



New York Library For The Performing Arts Renovation Completed

DATELINE New York
A $37 million renovation of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has been completed by Polshek Partnership Architects of New York. Reopening on October 15, 2001, the renovation unites all four Research Collections. The Unified Research Coll...
 11.13.01



Bacharach Institute For Rehabilitation Plans New Aquatic & Ambulatory Care Center

DATELINE Atlantic City, N.J.
Bacharach Institute for Rehabilitation has selected Granary Associates Architects to provide architectural, interior design and engineering services for a new Aquatic Center and Ambulatory Care Center. The Bacharach Institute, located adjacent to the Atla...
 11.13.01



Assurant Group Relocates to Springfield

DATELINE Springfield, Ohio
 Assurant Group is planning to move its hazard insurance processing center into a new $20 million office facility in Springfield by spring of 2002, pending approval of city and state training and infrastructure improvement grants. Assurant is jointly...
 11.13.01



Yahoo Headquarters Shapes Up With New Fitness Center

DATELINE Sunnyvale, Calif.
Yahoo's new Sunnyvale headquarters, completed in April of this year, features a full-service fitness center housing isotonic and cardiovascular equipment. The 3,500-sf glass-enclosed center has a 1,200-sf aerobics and yoga studio and offers health educati...
 11.13.01



Digital Optics Acquires Charlotte Manufacturing Facility

DATELINE Charlotte, N.C.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Digital Optics Corp. has moved into a 100,000-sf manufacturing facility on 7 acres in University Research Park. Over the next five years the photonic chip manufacturer plans to triple its facilities on the site.   ...
 11.13.01



Gigawave Technologies Triples Facilities

DATELINE San Antonio
Gigawave Technologies of San Antonio is preparing to move from an outgrown 3,000-sf  into a new 10,000-sf facility. Gigawave provides training services for Cisco Systems and for companies installing new wireless LANs. ...
 11.13.01



Construction of Stanford University's Clark Center Under Way

DATELINE Palo Alto, Calif.
 Stanford University is building the James H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering Sciences, a 225,000-sf bio-science research facility slated for occupancy in 2003. Promoting the Stanford interdisciplinary initiative called Bio-X, Clark Center wi...
 11.13.01



E-Trade Restructures, Relocates

DATELINE San Francisco
 E-Trade is consolidating its Bay Area offices this quarter by relocating its San Francisco operations to the new E-Trade Center in San Francisco and to existing Menlo Park and Rancho Cordova facilities.     ...
 11.13.01



Siemens Westinghouse Considers Fort Worth Location

DATELINE Fort Worth, Texas
Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp. is considering locating a $125-million manufacturing plant in the 9,600-acre Alliance industrial park in Fort Worth. Developed by Ross Perot Jr.'s Hillwood venture, the site would house 180,000-sf of manufacturing and 35,0...
 11.13.01



Extreme Devices Expands in Austin

DATELINE Austin, Texas
 Semiconductor manufacturer Extreme Devices is expanding by opening a bigger chip fabrication plant with adjoining offices in Southeast Austin. The combined 43,200-sf facility is a significant expansion from the firm's previous 6,000-sf location...
 11.13.01



Merix Bioscience Finances Completion of Cell Processing Facility

DATELINE Durham, N.C.
 Merix Bioscience Inc. has allocated $39.5 million of private financing to complete a 20,000-sf cell processing facility that will support the company's progress into Phase I clinical trials for its cancer vaccine....
 11.13.01



Lackland Projects In The Works

DATELINE Lackland, Texas
Lackland Air Force Base is slated to receive $4.2 million in federal funds to build a joint advanced language training facility and $8.6 million for construction of a new base dormitory.  ...
 11.13.01



Fort Sam Houston Projects Planned

DATELINE Fort Sam Houston, Texas
 Fort Sam Houston has been allocated $2.25 million in federal funds to build a general instruction building and $7.4 million for construction of a new physical fitness center.  ...
 11.13.01



PerkinElmer Expands in the Bay Area

DATELINE Fremont, Calif.
Santa Clara, Calif.-based medical device maker PerkinElmer is expanding with the addition of 88,000 sf. Sixty percent of the expansion will be utilized by the firms' manufacturing operations in Fremont....
 11.13.01



Office of Homeland Security Considers Washington Office Building

DATELINE Washington
The Office of Homeland Security may move into a 339,000-sf, eight-story stand-alone building with secure parking—the largest block of contiguous office space available in Washington. The General Services Administration is bidding for the space again...
 11.9.01



New Syngenta Office in RTP

DATELINE Research Triangle Park, N.C.
Syngenta, a biotechnology firm based in Basel, Switz., plans to begin construction at its RTP campus on a new 24,682-sf facility to house offices and a conference center. Architect for the building is Cline Design Associates; the general contractor is She...
 11.9.01



Ambion Seeks Approval For New Manufacturing Lab

DATELINE Austin, Texas
Austin-based Ambion Inc.'s Diagnostic RNA unit has built a new manufacturing lab and is seeking approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin manufacturing products. Shifting its focus to the molecular pathology market, Ambion began...
 11.9.01



Smith & Nephew To Open New Andover Headquarters

DATELINE Andover, Mass.
Smith & Nephew Inc. is expanding in Massachusetts. The company plans to open a new 80,000-sf Andover headquarters for its Endoscopy Division in 2002. The existing headquarters building will be converted to a 110,000-sf manufacturing facility, and a 60...
 11.9.01



Rohm and Haas Consolidates Operations in Lower Gwynedd

DATELINE Philadelphia
Rohm and Haas, based in Philadelphia, plans to consolidate its chemical operations in Lower Gwynedd, where the company currently has a 600,000-sf lab. After closing its facility in Bristol Township, Rohm and Haas will invest $20- to $25 million to relocat...
 11.9.01



North Carolina Universities Fund New Genomics Facilities

DATELINE Research Triangle Park, N.C.
Three universities in the Triangle have plans for new genomics facilities, faculty, and equipment. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has targeted $245 million for genomics development. North Carolina State University is investing $300 m...
 11.9.01



UT-San Antonio To Build New Biotechnology, Sciences & Engineering Building

DATELINE San Antonio
The University of Texas at San Antonio plans to develop its Biotechnology, Sciences and Engineering Building with $22.9 million received from a $1 billion state revenue bond initiative for new projects. The $64 million facility is currently in the program...
 11.9.01



UT Health Science Center at San Antonio Plans New Development

DATELINE San Antonio
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio could benefit from a $1 billion revenue bond initiative for new projects in Texas. The campus is eligible to receive up to $29 million for new facility construction housing academic administrati...
 11.9.01



Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi Plans New Facilities

DATELINE Corpus Christi, Texas
Texas A&M University at Corpus Christ plans to develop a new classroom and lab facility with $34 million in funds, part of a $1 billion revenue bond initiative for new projects in Texas. The Hart Research Center for Gulf of Mexico Studies is also slat...
 11.9.01



University of Maryland Develops CARB I & II

DATELINE Rockville, Md.
The University of Maryland's Shady Grove campus in Rockville is planning to begin expansion of its Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB) in March 2002. The current 88,000-sf facility will be joined by another four-story, 140,000-s...
 11.9.01



Signature Bioscience Seeks San Francisco Headquarters

DATELINE San Francisco
Signature Bioscience is seeking between 70,000-sf and 80,000-sf in San Francisco for its headquarters, currently housed in 27,000-sf in Hayward and 28,000-sf in Richmond. The Richmond facility may be retained in the relocation. Draws for a San Francisco h...
 11.9.01



Iomega Eyes SoCal For Relocation

DATELINE San Diego
Iomega Corp. of Utah is considering locations in Southern California for relocation of its headquarters. The high capacity diskette, drive, and data storage maker is favoring Orange County sites over San Diego at present, due to the grouping of data stora...
 11.9.01



Merck Builds New Longwood Research Facility

DATELINE Boston
Merck & Co. Inc. has selected the Boston office of Bovis Lend Lease to provide construction management of the Merck Research Center in the Longwood Medical Area. The 12-story, 390,000-sf facility is slated to open in 2004 and will house biology and ch...
 11.9.01



Wellesley College Redevelops Alumnae Valley

DATELINE Wellesley, Mass.
Wellesley College has selected Genesis Planners and Builders Inc. of Waltham as project manager for its Alumnae Valley redevelopment. Scope of the project, to be completed by 2005, includes landscape restoration of the valley, a new campus center, and a 5...
 11.9.01



University of Phoenix Plans Braintree Satellite Campus

DATELINE Braintree, Mass.
The University of Phoenix has selected Braintree-based Integrated Builders to develop a 13,000-sf satellite campus in Braintree....
 11.9.01



Intel To Renovate Hudson Office

DATELINE Hudson, Mass.
Intel has awarded Braintree-based Integrated Builders a $3 million, 80,000-sf office renovation contract in Hudson. ...
 11.9.01



Gensym Redesign Completed

DATELINE Burlington, Mass.
Gensym's $1.9 million, 27,300-sf corporate redesign project in Burlington's Northwest Park was recently completed by Maugel Architects Inc. of Concord....
 11.9.01



University of Denver Plans New College of Law Facility

DATELINE Denver
The University of Denver is planning a new College of Law facility. The 191,000-sf building will be designed by Boston-based Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott and H+L Architects of Denver, and will feature structured and underground parking for 800 v...
 11.9.01



Pharm-Eco Labs Opens Chemistry Services Plant

DATELINE Fort Devens, Mass.
Pharm-Eco Laboratories Inc., a provider of chemistry outsourcing services for drug candidates in preclinical development through Phase II trials, recently opened a 160,000-sf plant on the site of the former Fort Devens. Pharm-Eco plans to acquire addition...
 11.9.01



Enanta Pharmaceuticals Moves Headquarters to Watertown

DATELINE Watertown, Mass.
Enanta Pharmaceuticals Inc. is moving its headquarters in fall 2001 to 45,000-sf in Watertown, Mass. Enanta utilizes peptide morphing to develop antiviral drugs and currently has 56 employees....
 11.9.01



AstraZeneca Expands in Boston

DATELINE Boston
AstraZeneca R&D Boston will soon be adding 80,000 sf to its 170,000-sf office and infectious disease research facility in Boston. The company currently employs 250 at the site; the expansion will accommodate up to 420 over the next few years.  ...
 11.9.01



Emory University School of Medicine Plans Faculty and Education Building

DATELINE Atlanta
Emory University School of Medicine is planning a $15 million faculty and education building on the Grady Memorial Hospital campus. The facility is slated for completion at the end of 2003.  ...
 11.9.01



BioSmart Excelerator Planned in Montgomery County

DATELINE Rockville, Md.
BioSmart Excelerator, a 30,000- to 50,000-sf intermediate incubator for mezzanine bioscience companies, is being planned for Montgomery County, Md., by the former director of Maryland’s Technology Development Center, Duc Duong. Once funds are raised...
 11.2.01



University of San Diego Breaks Ground on Science and Technology Center

DATELINE San Diego
The University of San Diego broke ground in May 2001 on the new four-story, 150,000-sf Science and Technology Center. The $47-million building will contain state-of-the-art labs, a vivarium, a greenhouse, aquariums, an astronomy deck, and a large conferen...
 11.1.01



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