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News from June 2002

CSU Stanislaus Completes Educational Services Building

DATELINE Turlock, Calif.
The Sacramento office of McCarthy Building Companies has completed construction on the $19-million Mary Stuart Rogers Educational Services Gateway Building at California State University, Stanislaus (CSUS) in Turlock. This 130,000-sf student services...
 6.28.02



George Washington University Hospital Opens New Facility

DATELINE Washington
George Washington University Hospital is moving into a new 371-bed, six-level hospital in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington. The $100-million facility is the first hospital to open in the District in 25 years. Replacing a 501-bed hospital, ...
 6.28.02



Advancis Breaks Ground on Germantown Facility

DATELINE Germantown, Md.
Advancis Pharmaceutical has broken ground on a lab, office, and manufacturing facility for drug development in Germantown. Advancis, based in Germantown, expects the 62,000-sf facility to reach completion in early 2003. ...
 6.28.02



San Jose State University Develops Student Housing

DATELINE San Jose, Calif.
San Jose State University (SJSU) is planning Campus Village, a dormitory project providing up to 5,700 student, faculty, and staff beds. The three buildings, ranging from three to fifteen stories with two levels of underground parking, will replace t...
 6.28.02



Anne Arundel Community College Builds New Facility

DATELINE Arnold, Md.
Anne Arundel Community College has partnered with the Anne Arundel Community College Foundation to build a 77,700-sf school in the western portion of Anne Arundel county. The four-story facility, accommodating 7,500 to 10,000 students annua...
 6.28.02



Freedom Forum Builds Newseum

DATELINE Arlington, Va.
Freedom Forum, a Northern Virginia-based nonprofit, is planning a $432-million media museum in Arlington. The original Newseum, which closed earlier this year, will be replaced with a 555,000-sf museum, retail and restaurant complex. Construction and equi...
 6.28.02



Sun Microsystems Renovates Building 6

DATELINE Burlington, Mass.
Sun Microsystems has selected Elaine Construction Co. as construction manager for a 70,000-sf renovation of Building No. 6 on the company's Burlington campus. Designed by ADD Inc. of Cambridge, the project includes renovations of a computer ranc...
 6.28.02



Emerson College Builds Tuttle Performance Center

DATELINE Boston
Boston's Emerson College recently held a topping off celebration for the Tuttle Center for Performance and Production, the first new facility to be built by the 120-year-old college. Designed by Elkus/Manfredi Architects, the 11-story project is being con...
 6.28.02



Comcast Cable Plans Tech Support Center in Prince William

DATELINE Manassas, Va.
Philadelphia-based Comcast Cable will invest $21.5 million in a new technology support center on George Mason University’s Prince William campus at the Innovation @Prince William business park. ...
 6.28.02



Harvard Medical School Builds Research Building

DATELINE Boston
Harvard Medical School is developing a $250-million research facility in Boston for the medical school and collaborative tenants. Built by William A. Berry & Sons, the 430,000-sf facility includes a 196,000-sf parking garage. The project is 35% comple...
 6.28.02



Howard County General Opens New Emergency Department

DATELINE Columbia, Md.
Howard County General Hospital is opening its new expanded emergency department in early July. The Columbia hospital’s new unit is three times as large as the previous emergency department, and is divided into three specific care levels: a pedi...
 6.28.02



INOVA Develops Falls Church Heart Institute

DATELINE Falls Church, Va.
INOVA Health Systems has selected the Washington, D.C. office of Turner Construction Company to construct the new INOVA Heart Institute in Falls Church. The $60-million project is scheduled for completion in January 2004. The architect is Wilmot/Sanz...
 6.25.02



University of San Diego Builds Center for Science and Technology

DATELINE San Diego
The University of San Diego will consolidate the departments of biology, chemistry, physics, and marine sciences in its new 150,000-sf Donald Pearce Shiley Center for Science and Technology.  Housing a greenhouse, an astronomy deck, an aviary, a...
 6.24.02



NCSU Veterinary School Completes Master Plan

DATELINE Raleigh, N.C.
North Carolina State University Veterinary School worked with Flad & Associates recently to complete its master plan. Flad is now working on the construction document phase for a new 100,000-sf cell biology wet lab for the school. ...
 6.21.02



Texas A&M University Improves Campuses

DATELINE Galveston, Texas
Due to an allocation of funds from the Texas legislature for university facility renovation and construction, Texas A&M University will build a $10-million engineering facility on its Galveston campus, develop the Harte Research Ce...
 6.21.02



IEM Relocates Headquarters

DATELINE Glenolden, Pa.
International Engineering & Manufacturing  (IEM), maker of a liquid sensoring device, is gearing for expansion with a move into a 26,000-sf facility on 2.5 acres in Glenolden. The consolidation will involve relocating the company's headquart...
 6.21.02



University of Texas Develops New Facilities

DATELINE Arlington, Texas
Due to an allocation of funds from the Texas legislature for university facility renovation and construction, the University of Texas will build a $27.7-million science facility at UT-Arlington, a $32.6-million medical and health sciences center at U...
 6.21.02



Targacept Occupies New Headquarters

DATELINE Winston-Salem, N.C.
Targacept, an R&D product development spin-off from R.J. Reynolds, has moved into its new 44,000-sf headquarters and research facility in Winston-Salem. Located in the Piedmont Triad Research Park, the new building will enable Targacept’s e...
 6.21.02



Wills Eye Hospital Opens Bed-Free Facility

DATELINE Philadelphia
Wills Eye Hospital, the nation's only free-standing eye hospital, opened its new bed-free, 125,000-sf outpatient hospital on July 1. The new $47-million medical center, located on top of the Walnut Towers in Center City, will offer advanced ophthalmo...
 6.21.02



Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Builds Cell-Processing Lab

DATELINE Boston
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is developing a $5-million cell-processing lab in the Longwood Medical area of Boston. Funded in part by Bethesda's National Institutes of Health (NIH), the facility will consolidate operations now located in several labs ...
 6.21.02



University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Plans Renovations

DATELINE Chapel Hill, N.C.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently worked with Flad & Associates to complete renovation plans for the 60,000-sf Old Dental Building at the School of Dentistry. The 40-year-old facility will house classrooms, research, and new off...
 6.21.02



Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Restores Murdock Hall

DATELINE North Adams, Mass.
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts has selected Charlestown-based Design Partnership of Cambridge as architect for the restoration of Murdock Hall on the university's campus in North Adams. The 1894 building will be restored to serve its original purpo...
 6.21.02



FDIC Builds Arlington Office Towers

DATELINE Arlington, Va.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has selected The Orr Co. of Falls Church as development manager for its expansion in the Virginia Square neighborhood of Arlington. The expansion includes a 372,000-sf, two-tower office building and housing accommodatio...
 6.21.02



Dynport Vaccine Breaks Ground on Frederick Facility

DATELINE Frederick, Md.
Dynport Vaccine, a joint venture between DynCorp and pharmaceutical company Porton International, has broken ground on a three-story office in Frederick.  Dynport Vaccine, the prime systems contractor for the Department of Defense’s vaccin...
 6.21.02



Auburn University Develops School of Pharmacy Master Plan

DATELINE Auburn, Ala.
Auburn University Walker School of Pharmacy’s master plan is being developed by Flad & Associates.  Flad is also designing a 20,000-sf teaching facility addition for the new Doctor of Pharmacy degree program. The addition will fac...
 6.21.02



Institute for Genomic Research Develops Rockville Lab

DATELINE Rockville, Md.
The Institute for Genomic Research has awarded DPR Construction the contract to build a new four-story lab facility. Located in Rockville next to the not-for-profit’s 12-acre campus, the building includes wet and dry lab facilities, support and admi...
 6.21.02



Southwest Research Institute Opens Testing Facility

DATELINE San Antonio
San Antonio-based Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has opened the 9,700-sf Network Equipment/Building Systems (NEBS) dedicated testing facility for telecommunications equipment. NEBS testing determines how equipment performs in a variety of o...
 6.21.02



Saint Raphael Healthcare System Develops Master Plan

DATELINE New Haven, Conn.
Saint Raphael Healthcare System in New Haven, Conn. has selected TRO/The Ritchie Organization of Boston to develop a master site plan and provide program planning services to ensure the successful implementation of its strategic initiatives. This pla...
 6.19.02



Hoag Memorial Hospital Plans Women's Pavilion

DATELINE Newport Beach, Calif.
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has awarded McCarthy Building Companies a contract to build the new Women's Pavilion. Scheduled to begin construction in fall 2002, the new tower will consolidate women's services in one facility and will free up space ...
 6.18.02



David Grant Medical Center Plans New Vivarium Enclosure

DATELINE Travis Air Force Base, Calif.
David Grant Medical Center Vivarium at Travis Air Force Base has awarded Syska Hennessy Group Construction the contract to build a new enclosure for their outdoor animal area. The 5,300-sf, $1-million addition will provide a weatherproof, conditioned...
 6.18.02



AMN Healthcare Plans Corporate Headquarters

DATELINE Del Mar, Calif.
AMN Healthcare (AMN) has selected The Irving Hughes Group as construction manager for its new 172,000-sf corporate headquarters in Del Mar. The facility is being designed by San Diego-based Howard Sneed Architecture and Design, who also des...
 6.17.02



Camden County College Develops IT Center

DATELINE Blackwood, N.J.
Camden County College is due to break ground on a 320,000-sf project designed by architect Bower Lewis Thrower of Philadelphia. The 8-story, $15-million development will include 37,000 sf of labs, classrooms, a community information technology center,...
 6.14.02



Appalachian State University Builds New Library Complex

DATELINE Boone, N.C.
Appalachian State University has awarded the Charlotte office of Bovis Lend Lease the $40-million contract to build its new 210,000-sf central library complex in Boone. Consisting of one level below ground and five levels above, the facility will house el...
 6.14.02



MGH Institute of Health Professions Renovates Building 36

DATELINE Charlestown, Mass.
Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions and Payton Construction Corp. of Boston recently completed the conversion and renovation of Building 36 in Charlestown. The 72,000-sf renovation of the former Massachusetts Water Resources Aut...
 6.14.02



Rowan University Builds New Science Building

DATELINE Glassboro, N.J.
Rowan University's new $35-million science building is being developed in Glassboro, N.J., by contractor Bovis Lend Lease of Princeton, N.J. Slated for completion in December 2002, the three-story, 150,500-sf facility was designed by C...
 6.14.02



Campbell University Relocates Campus

DATELINE Morrisville, N.C.
Campbell University is relocating its Research Triangle Park campus, formerly located at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, to 21,000 sf in the Southport Business Park near RTP in Morrisville. The new campus, named Research Triangle Park Center, i...
 6.14.02



BCIT Plans Medford Campus Expansion Phase Two

DATELINE Medford, N.J.
The Burlington County Institute of Technology (BCIT) is planning phase two of its Medford Campus development. The $19-million, 91,000-sf project involves 65,900-sf of additions including a new gym, auditorium, auto shop and television studio. Slated for c...
 6.14.02



Wyeth-Ayerst Initiates Phase Two Expansion

DATELINE Collegeville, Pa.
Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals has initiated the second phase of construction on its five-building Collegeville expansion. The $220-million project was designed by The Kling Lindquist Partnership of Philadelphia and is being built by Barclay ...
 6.14.02



Technology High School at McKinley Renovated

DATELINE Washington
Technology High School at McKinley's 300,000-sf, $40-million renovation will be delivered by general contractor James G. Davis Construction of Rockville with joint venture partner HRGM. The public/private partnership on the project resulted in $...
 6.14.02



BioMerieux Opens Durham Customer Service Center

DATELINE Durham, N.C.
BioMerjeux, a France-based medical-testing products company, opened its new Durham customer service and call center at Teer Technical Park in June. ...
 6.14.02



Genentech Expands SF Facilities

DATELINE San Francisco
Biotech giant Genentech has begun preliminary work on a 125,000-sf office facility project, pending approval by the South San Francisco city council late this summer . Designed by Los Angeles-based Johnson Fain Partners and built by Hathaway Din...
 6.14.02



Census Bureau Plans Green Headquarters

DATELINE Suitland, Md.
The U.S. Bureau of the Census is planning a new headquarters at Suitland Federal Center. Consolidating employees from six facilities, three of which are in the Center, the headquarters is being developed by the General Services Ad...
 6.14.02



BCIT Plans Westhampton Expansion Phase One

DATELINE Westhampton, N.J.
The Burlington County Institute of Technology (BCIT) is planning a $25-million, 136,600-sf expansion and renovation of its Westhampton Campus. Slated for completion in January of 2004, the project is being designed by Cape May Courthouse, N.J.-based ...
 6.14.02



DreamWorks Consolidates in Redwood City

DATELINE Redwood City, Calif.
DreamWorks has relocated its animation offices into 120,000 sf at Pacific Shores Center in Redwood City, Calif. The computer animation division, which is based in Palo Alto and employs 300 workers in three sites, will also be consolidated into the Re...
 6.7.02



Genzyme Expands, Consolidates with Westborough Lease

DATELINE Westborough, Mass.
Cambridge-based biotech Genzyme will consolidate several area facilities with the lease of 85,800 sf in Westborough. Space allocation in the building, owned by EMC Corp., will be 25% lab and 75% office. The facility will house the Genzyme Genetics di...
 6.7.02



Morphotek Occupies Exton Facility

DATELINE Exton, Mass.
Morphotek, the first biotech company to graduate from the Port of Technology incubator in West Philadelphia, will occupy a 41,000-sf facility in Exton. Previously located in 2,000 sf in the University City Science Center's Port of Technology bui...
 6.7.02



New England Biolabs Plans Ipswich Lab

DATELINE Ipswich, Mass.
New England Biolabs has selected Boston-based Jung/Brannen Associates as architect of record for the design of its new 150,000-sf Ipswich laboratory building. The firm will collaborate with Weston Williamson of London to create the three-story R&...
 6.7.02



ACET Incubator Considers Former Naval Fleet Site

DATELINE Alameda, Calif.
Advancing California's Emerging Technologies (ACET) may team up with Catellus Development to create ACET's new home on 3.3 acres of the 213-acre former U.S. Naval Air Station Fleet Industrial Center. Originally a bioscience incubator, ACET has expanded it...
 6.7.02



Kaiser Relocates Bay Area Optical Lab

DATELINE Richmond, Calif.
Kaiser Permanente has opted to relocate its Northern California optical lab from Berkeley to Richmond instead of consolidating with a Southern California Kaiser lab. The 39,000-sf Richmond facility will house administration and manufacturing ope...
 6.7.02



Genzyme Develops Green Headquarters

DATELINE Cambridge, Mass.
Genzyme Corp. received a $321,750 grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) for its 280,000-sf "green" headquarters under construction in Cambridge. MTC, managing the state's $150-million Renewable Energy Trust, has awarded seven gr...
 6.7.02



Genmark Expands with Milpitas Facility

DATELINE Milpitas, Calif.
Genmark Automation, expanding its tool and factory automation operations for the semiconductor industry, is developing a new 53,000-sf Milpitas facility which will be fully operational by midsummer of 2002. Genmark aims to efficiently produce technol...
 6.7.02



University of Maryland Plans Shady Grove Educational Center

DATELINE Rockville, Md.
The University of Maryland has selected the Baltimore office of Cannon Design to design a 200,000-sf educational center at its Shady Grove Campus. Computer classrooms, laboratories, and administrative and faculty offices will be housed at the new cen...
 6.7.02



Baylor University Breaks Ground on New Sciences Building

DATELINE Waco, Texas
Baylor University broke ground on the new 500,000-sf Baylor Sciences Building on May 17, 2002. The $103-million facility will consolidate departments currently located within the University's science buildings. Comprised of three wings, the four-story str...
 6.6.02



Texas Tech University Plans Health Sciences Research Center

DATELINE El Paso, Texas
Texas Tech University System has selected Detroit-based SmithGroup to provide programming, design architecture, engineering, and master planning services for a new Health Sciences Center Research Facility in El Paso. The facility, scheduled for completion...
 6.6.02



Southwest Business Corp Plans Service Consolidation

DATELINE San Antonio
Southwest Business Corp. plans to consolidate its services at a new 100,000-sf headquarters on a 3.7-acre site in North Central San Antonio. Groundbreaking for the $12 to $14-million building plus 4.5-story parking structure is planned for 2003, with occu...
 6.6.02



Smithsonian Renovates Museum of American History

DATELINE Washington
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Behring Center, has selected the New York-based architecture firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to launch the museum's renovation of its 38-year-old building. The project will improve visitor circ...
 6.5.02



Idec Pharmaceuticals Breaks Ground on Manufacturing Project

DATELINE San Diego
Idec Pharmaceuticals of San Diego broke ground on the first phase of a $1.25-billion large-scale manufacturing project on May 30. The first phase, totalling 470,000-sf in five buildings, is part of a planned three-phase, 1.3 million-sf new products m...
 6.3.02



TheraSense Doubles Alameda Facilities

DATELINE Alameda, Calif.
TheraSense of Alameda, Calif., is doubling its facilities with the lease of 64,000 sf of build-to-suit space adjacent to its existing building in Alameda. TheraSense will invest $3-million in tenant improvements for the facility, which will...
 6.1.02



Tibco Software Expands Palo Alto Offices

DATELINE Palo Alto, Calif.
Tibco Software has expanded its Palo Alto offices by 292,000 sf, accommodating the company's move into the field of business integration software. The expansion will allow Tibco to double its staff of over 1,000-employees. ...
 6.1.02



Lafayette College Develops Athletic Facilities Master Plan

DATELINE Lehigh Valley, Pa.
Lafayette College of Lehigh Valley, Pa., has selected Boston-based Cannon Design to develop a varsity athletic facilities master plan. Lafayette's 80,000-sf Kirby Field House addition was recently planned and programmed by Cannon. The Kirby addition&...
 6.1.02



Novellus Expands Oregon Operations

DATELINE Tualatin, Ore.
San Jose-based semiconductor equipment maker Novellus Systems is expanding its Tualatin, Oregon, operations with the opening of a 382,000-sf plant. Located on a 58-acre campus, the factory will manufacture products for chipmakers to produce advanced ...
 6.1.02



Cephalon Seeks New Research Facilities

DATELINE West Chester, Pa.
Cephalon is seeking 100 acres on which to locate a research and office complex that could eventually total up to 1,000,000 sf. Currently housed in 160,000 sf in West Chester, Cephalon's research and administrative operations employ 400 work...
 6.1.02



Temple University Builds Student Housing

DATELINE Philadelphia
Temple University of Philadelphia is relieving its shortage of student housing with the renovation of the old Kardon building to create a 187-unit apartment complex. Part of a campus plan formed in 1998, the 473,000-sf, eight-story building will be conver...
 6.1.02



Sutter Solano Medical Plans Bay Area Projects

DATELINE Fairfield, Calif.
Sutter Solano Medical Center is planning a new outpatient care facility in Fairfield, Calif. The not-for-profit community hospital will also improve its Vallejo hospital's emergency department. Sutter Solano is a member of the Sutter Health network, which...
 6.1.02



Viral Antigens Builds Biologic Manufacturing Facility

DATELINE Memphis, Tenn.
Viral Antigens is developing a 2,500-sf biologic manufacturing facility attached to the company's existing Memphis facility. After eighteen months of planning and construction, the final certification of the $2.5-million contract factory will begin. ...
 6.1.02



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