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News from February 2002

Trinity College Athletic Center Renovation Completed

DATELINE Washington
Trinity College has completed a $20 million renovation of its athletic facility including the Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sport, a NCAA regulation playing field, and a 1,600-seat basketball arena. Trinity's athletic...
 2.28.02



Wyeth-Lederle Expands Sanford Facilities

DATELINE Sanford, N.C.
Wyeth-Lederle, a subsidiary of Madison, N.J.-based American Home Products, completed a 40,000-sf addition to its Sanford facility in 2001 and has embarked on an additional 115,000-sf expansion. The $125-million project will increase employment from 540 to...
 2.28.02



Media and Technology Charter School In Design Phase

DATELINE Boston
Media and Technology Charter High School (MATCH) selected HMFH Architects Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., to design its new Boston campus--a 20,000-sf building. The general contractor for the project is A.J. Martini Inc. ...
 2.28.02



National Hispanic University Plans New San Jose Campus

DATELINE SAN JOSE, Calif.
National Hispanic University is planning to develop the 11-acre site of the former Fred Martin Elementary School in San Jose as its permanent home. The 60,000-sf facility is scheduled for completion in 2003. Site purchase was made possible by over $...
 2.28.02



Children's Hospital of Oakland Plans Expansion

DATELINE OAKLAND, Calif.
The Children's Hospital of Oakland is planning a $24-million, 13,300-sf expansion as well as a 14,960-sf renovation. The project would provide MRI space, expand ER facilities, and increase diagnostic rooms. ...
 2.28.02



Willis Eye Hospital Under Construction

DATELINE Philadelphia
Willis Eye Hospital is developing a new 150,000-sf hospital in Philadelphia. The purchase of air rights enabled construction of the 14-story office and medical facility on top of an existing office and parking garage, a challenge for architect Andre Zlot...
 2.28.02



Washington Hospital Develops Terrorism Response Unit

DATELINE Washington
Washington Hospital Center is developing an emergency department that converts quickly to terrorist-ready mode as needed. The full-service ER One is a prototype terrorism response unit that includes design specifications for a 21st century facility....
 2.28.02



Vitasoy Relocates to Massachusetts

DATELINE Ayer, Mass.
Vitasoy USA Inc. is closing its offices in South San Francisco and moving its corporate headquarters to a 180,000-sf facility on 12 acres owned by Vitasoy in Ayer, Mass. Vitasoy makes tofu and soy products. The company is a subsidiary owned by Vitasoy In...
 2.28.02



IBM Establishes Austin Research Lab

DATELINE Austin, Texas
IBM Corp. is creating a low-power computing research center in Austin to develop energy efficient information technology. Based in Armonk, N.Y, IBM is establishing the Austin lab to increase the power efficiency of servers, software, computer chips and o...
 2.28.02



U.S. DataPort Complex Redesigned

DATELINE Gainesville, Fla.
U.S. Dataport, based in San Jose, Calif., has abandoned plans to build a 3,750,000-sf, $1.4-billion data center in Gainesville in favor of a general high-tech business park housing office and light manufacturing space for products such...
 2.28.02



Chevron Moves Headquarters to San Ramon

DATELINE San Ramon, Calif.
Chevron Corp. is relocating its corporate headquarters to the company's San Ramon campus. Chevron will move the remaining 200 San Francisco employees to Chevron's large corporate home in San Ramon, which currently houses 3,500 workers. ...
 2.27.02



SDSU Opens Aztech Athletics Center & Hall of Fame

DATELINE San Diego
San Diego State University (SDSU) opened its new $16.5-million Aztech Athletics Center & Hall of Fame building in February 2002. Carrier Johnson, with offices in San Diego and Irvine, provided architectural and interior design services for the structu...
 2.27.02



RTKL To Design 425-Acre Data Center Campus

DATELINE Loudon County, Va.
RTKL Associates Inc. has been awarded the design contract for the development of Fortress Development Company's (previously  DataCentersNow) new 425-acre data center and office community that will be located in Loudoun County, Virginia. The site will...
 2.26.02



Rib-X Develops New Haven Research Facilities

DATELINE New Haven, Conn.
Rib-X Pharmaceuticals is planning a new 26,400-sf lab and office facility at New Haven’s 300 George Biotech Laboratory complex. Jung/Brannen Associates, based in Boston, has completed architectural design for the structure, which will accommodate re...
 2.22.02



Cell Genesys To Build Memphis Cancer Vaccine Facility

DATELINE Memphis, Tenn.
Cell Genesys, based in Foster City, Calif., plans to develop a 35,000-sf manufacturing facility in Memphis for the production of the GVAX cancer vaccine. Completion is scheduled for the end of 2002.  The company also plans to relocate its headquarter...
 2.22.02



LA Regional Crime Laboratory Facility Authority Designs Regional Forensics Science Crime Lab

DATELINE Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Regional Crime Laboratory Facility Authority has selected the architectural team of HarleyEllis of Detroit and their Los Angeles affiliate Fields Deveraux Architects Engineers to program the new Los Angeles Regional Forensics Science Crime...
 2.19.02



Merck Plans Biotech Research Facility at Emmanuel College

DATELINE Boston
Merck & Co. is planning a new 300,000-gsf biotechnology research facility on the campus of Emmanuel College in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood. Designated as Merck Research Laboratories-Boston, the structure will have twelve stories above ground an...
 2.15.02



University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey Expands Cancer Institute

DATELINE New Brunswick, N.J.
The University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey has selected Sordoni Skanska of Parsippany, N.J., to manage construction for a 139,000-gsf expansion of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey’s current cancer facility. The Institute is located o...
 2.13.02



Smith & Hawken Opens Corporate Headquarters in Novato

DATELINE Novato, Calif.
Smith & Hawken, purveyors of up-scale garden products, has opened its corporate headquarters at Hamilton Landing, a $100-million office park under construction at the former Hamilton Field military base in Marin County. The developer of the project, B...
 2.8.02



AMD Will Build Singapore Chip Fabrication Plant

DATELINE Austin, Texas
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced in January that it plans to build its new 300mm chipmaking fabrication plant in Singapore, rather than in Texas or another U.S. location, despite significant efforts by many cities to draw the project to their region...
 2.8.02



Genetech Hall Under Construction at UC Mission Bay

DATELINE San Francisco
Genentech’s 385,000-sf, $145-million biotechnology facility—Genentech Hall— is under way at the University of California, San Francisco’s new Mission Bay campus. Executive architect for the project is the SmithGroup of San Francisc...
 2.8.02



Opex Pharmaceuticals To Build Houston Manufacturing Facility

DATELINE Houston
Opexa Pharmaceuticals has selected PageSoutherlandPage Architects, Engineers, and Consultants of Houston to provide architecture, engineering, commissioning, and validation support services for Opexa’s new manufacturing facility. The 27,000-sf struc...
 2.7.02



Sybase Occupies New Dublin Headquarters

DATELINE Dublin, Calif.
Sybase, the e-business software and database maker, has relocated 1,000 employees from Emeryville, Calif., to its new 406,000-sf headquarters in Dublin. Wilcox Development Services developed the two-buildings, which are connected by a bridge. Administrati...
 2.7.02



Point Loma Nazarene Renovation Completed

DATELINE San Diego
Renovations to a 48,000-sf building have been completed at Point Loma Nazarene University's Mission Valley campus. Planned and designed by Milo Architecture Group of San Diego, the 30-year old, four-story building houses the university's graduat...
 2.5.02



Lipomed To Occupy New Headuarters

DATELINE Raleigh, N.C.
LipoMed will consolidate its three Raleigh locations in a new headquarters for the biotech company at the Parker Business Center, where Phase I construction is complete. A nearby 40,000-sf shell building has been fitted-up and is ready for move-in. An adj...
 2.5.02



Chiron's Emeryville Presence Expands

DATELINE Emeryville, Calif.
Chiron is proceeding with the development of 300,000 sf in Emeryville, scheduled to break ground in July 2002. The new lab space is part of a 20-year city-approved plan including a 2.2 million-sf growth margin for the diagnostic testing, vaccine and ...
 2.5.02



Cornell Builds Nanotechnology Facility

DATELINE Ithaca, N.Y.
Cornell University has selected St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Companies Inc. to provide construction management and general contracting services for Duffield Hall, a research and teaching facility for nanotechnology. The $42-million construc...
 2.5.02



Vanguard Completes Malvern Campus

DATELINE Malvern, Pa.
Vanguard Group has completed construction of three 120,000-sf buildings on a 300-acre site in Malvern. The mutual fund giant is also initiating premliminary work on a 250-acre, 2.5 million-sf campus which may enter the first phase of constr...
 2.5.02



Abbott Labs Proposes Redwood City Expansion

DATELINE Redwood City, Calif.
Abbott Labs has proposed a 1,000,000-sf expanison in Redwood City, providing manufacturing and R&D facilities for the Chicago-based bioscience company's cardiac products. Maximizing the company's proximity to the world-class cardia...
 2.5.02



Perkin Elmer Develops Billerica Manufacturing Facility

DATELINE Billerica, Mass.
PerkinElmer Life Sciences, based in Boston, has a new 3,800-sf manufacturing building under construction in Billerica. The renovated space will accommodate 10-12 employees. The plant will produce Yttrium 90 for use in radiotherapeutic cancer treatment. It...
 2.5.02



Allstate To Occupy New Twin Oaks Building

DATELINE San Antonio
Allstate Corp. of Northbrook, Ill., will lease 50,030 sf of the new Two Twin Oaks facility planned by real estate developer Koontz McCombs LLC. Located in the Twin Oaks Office Park in North Central San Antonio, the 70,000-sf ...
 2.5.02



Peoplesoft Plans Pleasanton Expansion

DATELINE Pleasanton, Calif.
Peoplesoft has proposed expanding its Pleasanton operations with a new 181,000-sf office facility adjacent to its existing 815,000-sf complex in the Hacienda Business Park. Housing 800 employees, the project is slated for completion in fall of 2003 . The ...
 2.5.02



Cisco Plans Boxborough, Littleton Expansion

DATELINE Boxborough, Mass.
California-based tech giant Cisco Systems has planned 13 buildings in Boxborough and Littleton totalling 1.5 million sf and is seeking approval to develop 500,000 sf in three additional buildings for a total of 2 million sf. At the Boxborough office ...
 2.5.02



Slough Estates Develops for Biotech in SF

DATELINE San Francisco
Britain-based Slough Estates USA is planning to develop the Britannia East Grand in South San Francisco, a 783,533-sf biotech facility designed by South San Francisco-based DES and to be built by Hathaway Dinwiddie.  Pending final approval in Ap...
 2.5.02



Design of Microsoft's New England Office Completed

DATELINE Waltham, Mass.
Interior design of Microsoft's $3.3-million New England office was completed by Boston-based SBA/Steffian Bradley Associates Inc. Located in the Waltham/Weston Corporate Center, the 50,000-sf project is a joint venture of contractor Turner Const...
 2.4.02



Toyota Builds Tijuana Manufacturing Plant

DATELINE Tijuana, Mexico
Toyota is planning to build a plant in Tijuana to manufacture its Tacoma pickup truck beds. Located on 700 acres in eastern Tijuana, the plant will produce 160,000 truck beds annually. Construction is slated to begin in spring of 2002&...
 2.4.02



SouthTrust Builds Data Center in Marietta

DATELINE Marietta, Ga.
SouthTrust is building its 72,000-sf Atlanta Data Center in Marietta, Ga., where check- and data-processing for the company's Georgia, Virginia, and North and South Carolina markets will be housed. SouthTrust, based in Birmingham, Ala., with operatio...
 2.4.02



Novo Nordisk Insulin Plant On Hold

DATELINE Clayton, N.C.
Plans to construct a second insulin manufacturing plant in Clayton have been put on hold by Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals' Danish parent company due to research delays. The plant would manufacture insulin in the form of an inhalant, the clinical trial...
 2.4.02



UT-San Antonio Breaks Ground on Durango Addition

DATELINE San Antonio
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) broke ground in January 2002 on its 33,000-sf Durango Building addition. Slated for completion in March of 2003, the $7 million additon will house UTSA's Institute for Economic Development....
 2.4.02



BioSET Consolidates In Maryland

DATELINE College Park, Md.
Biosurface Engineering Technologies (BioSET) is planning a consolidation of administrative and lab space in College Park's Technology Advancement Program incubator. BioSet,  a maker of medical device coatings for cardiovascular applica...
 2.4.02



Harvard University Renovations Completed

DATELINE Cambridge, Mass.
Harvard University has completed two renovation projects executed by Winchester-based Wise Construction Corp.  Robert Olson Architects provided design services for renovation of 15,000 sf on the 11th floor of William James Hall for the Psyc...
 2.4.02



SDSU Chemical Sciences Lab Opens

DATELINE San Diego
San Diego State University opened a new $31 million lab and research facility in January 2002. Featuring "smart classroom" technology for multimedia visual presentations, the building houses 57 state-of-the-art chemistry and geology labs an...
 2.4.02



Valero Builds San Antonio Headquarters

DATELINE San Antonio
Valero Energy Corp. has selected SpawGlass Contractors of San Antonio to build its new headquarters at the 148-acre campus of Ultramar Diamond Shamrock (UDS), recently acquired by Valero. The 200,000- to 300,000-sf office structure will consolidate Valero...
 2.1.02



PeopleSoft Expands Pleasanton Headquarters

DATELINE PLEASANTON, Calif.
PeopleSoft plans to expand its headquarters at Hacienda Business Park pending approvals from the city of Pleasanton. The company’s existing 815,000-sf complex would be supplemented with a new 181,000-sf, five-story office structure on a vacant parce...
 2.1.02



Office of Naval Research Consolidates with Liberty Center Facility

DATELINE Ballston, Va.
The Office of Naval Research will consolidate its area employees at a new 13-story, 330,000-sf office facility at Liberty Center. Architect for the 1.7 million-sf Liberty Center complex is SmithGroup, with Clark Construction acting as general contractor. ...
 2.1.02



E Commerce To Open Charlotte Data Center

DATELINE Charlotte, N.C.
E Commerce, an electronic billing service headquartered in New York, plans to geographically diversify its operations by placing its new data center in Charlotte. The company will open a 4,600-sf data center in April 2002 at the Claude Freeman Technology ...
 2.1.02



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