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News from November 2002

Bayer Diagnostics Consolidates in Berkeley

DATELINE Berkeley, Calif.
Bayer Diagnostics, a division of Bayer Corp., has vacated seven East Bay locations to consolidate operations in a recently completed 75,000-sf Berkeley building. Located in Wareham Development's Aquatic Park where Bayer Diagnostics will continue to occupy...
 11.29.02



O'Connor Hospital Plans Expansion

DATELINE San Jose, Calif.
O'Connor Hospital in San Jose approved a three-year strategic plan in November 2002 that will expand physician office space and enhance orthopedic and cardiovascular services. O'Connor will remodel a recently purchased a 32,000-sf building on the city's e...
 11.29.02



Normandy Farm Conference Center Under Construction

DATELINE Blue Bell, Pa.
Historic Normandy Farm in Blue Bell, Pa., is being transformed by Hansen Properties of Blue Bell into a conference center housing meeting space, ballrooms, banquet facilities, and dining. The $25-million project will preserve the former dairy's distinctiv...
 11.29.02



Kinetic Biosystems To Open Durham Biomanufacturing Facility

DATELINE Durham, N.C.
Atlanta-based Kinetic Biosystems Inc. (KBI) will site its planned $40-million contract biomanufacturing facility in an existing building in north Durham's Teer Technical Park, a five-building campus previously occupied by Mitsubishi Se...
 11.29.02



Johnson & Wales University Plans Charlotte Campus

DATELINE Charlotte, N.C.
Johnson & Wales University is planning a four-story, 145,000-sf academic center on its new Charlotte campus. Connecting the university's three colleges, the College of Culinary Arts, the College of Business, and the Hospitality College, the facil...
 11.29.02



Smithsonian Holds Topping-Out Ceremony for the National Museum of the American Indian

DATELINE Washington
The Smithsonian Institution recently held a topping-out celebration for the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington. The facility's structural concrete frame is now complete. Jones & Jones Architects & Landscape Architects is the desi...
 11.29.02



UPS Completes International Hub Expansion in California

DATELINE Ontario, Calif.
The United Parcel Service has completed the $44-million expansion of its Ontario, Calif., international air hub. The 176,000-sf addition expands the size of the hub to 676,000 sf. The hub's sorting capacity will increase by 5...
 11.29.02



Smithsonian To Open National Air & Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center

DATELINE Dulles, D.C.
The Smithsonian Institution will open the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport in December 2003. Contractor Hensel Phelps Construction of Greeley, Colo., began building the $309-million, 760,0...
 11.29.02



Certek To Build Pentagon Biodefense Lab

DATELINE Washington
Certek, a Raleigh, N.C., builder of modular biodefense research laboratories, was awarded a $2.1 million contract to construct a biodefense lab for the Pentagon. The lab will be manufactured in Durham, N.C., and transported to Washington D.C. fo...
 11.29.02



Flextronics Expands Youngsville Plant

DATELINE Youngsville, N.C.
Singapore-based Flextronics International is engaged in a $20-million, 560,000-sf expansion of its Youngsville, N.C., manufacturing facility. One of two U.S. technology campuses, the facility will house design, engineering, testing, and manufacturing...
 11.29.02



NIH Plans Biodefense Lab

DATELINE Bethesda, Md.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is planning to build an additional biodefense research lab facility on its Bethesda, Md., campus. NIH is also investing in campus renovations and new construction including a research center, clinic addition, lab sp...
 11.29.02



San Diego State University Expands Gateway Center

DATELINE San Diego
San Diego State University (SDSU) has selected Highland Partnership of San Diego as the design-build contractor for a $10.4-million, 60,000-sf classroom and office building. Construction of the four-story addition to SDSU's Gateway Center facility...
 11.25.02



Guepard Energy To Build Four Imperial County Plants

DATELINE San Diego
San Diego-based Guepard Energy will construct four 5-megawatt plants in Imperial County, Calif., that will use methane gas from cow manure to make electricity. Construction of the first facility, located near a beef-processing plant in Brawley, will begin...
 11.25.02



Purdue Creates Envision Research Center

DATELINE West Lafayette, Ind.
Purdue   University is creating Envision, a high-performance visualization research center and showcase, on its West Lafayette, Ind. campus.  To be installed in the University’s former billiard hall, the facility will allow students a...
 11.22.02



Keyspan Energy Relocates Headquarters to Waltham

DATELINE Waltham, Ma.
Keyspan Energy will relocate its New England headquarters from Boston to Waltham, consolidating several offices including locations in downtown Boston and West Roxbury. Keyspan will lease between 115,000 sf and 125,000 sf in the new location at 52 Second ...
 11.22.02



Cedra Clinical Research Expands With Austin Facility

DATELINE Austin, Texas
Cedra Clinical Research opened its new $1.4-million, 23,500-sf clinical trials research center in Austin in November 2002. Increasing Cedra's number of beds from 60 to 100, the center features amenities for study participants including space for recr...
 11.22.02



FDA Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition To Occupy College Park Lab

DATELINE College Park, Md.
The Food and Drug Administration has leased 65,760 sf in a new building under construction in College Park for the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. Laboratories will comprise 23,000-sf of the facility with the remainder as office space. ...
 11.22.02



Arcadia University Expands and Renovates Library

DATELINE Glenside, Pa.
Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa., has completed a 26,000-sf expansion of its Landeman Library, doubling the library's existing square footage. The facility is also undergoing a major renovation that will reach completion in 2003. The cos...
 11.22.02



Franklin Machine Products Builds Burlington County Headquarters

DATELINE Lumberton, N.J.
Franklin Machine Products (FMP) is constructing a new $5.5-million headquarters in Lumberton, N.J. The 80,000-sf facility will double the size of the food-service supplies manufacturer's existing Evansham operations; the Evansham plant will be s...
 11.22.02



Buck Distributing Completes Upper Marlboro Facility

DATELINE Upper Marlboro, Md.
Buck Distribution recently completed the design and construction of its new 150,000-sf office and distribution facility in Upper Marlboro. Designed and built by R.W. Murray Co., the building houses 65,000 sf of warehouse space and 42,000 sf of interior lo...
 11.22.02



State Compensation Insurance Fund Builds Green HQ

DATELINE San Francisco
State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) will begin building a new 267,300-sf San Francisco facility in 2003. Expanding the worker's compensation insurer's Market Street headquarters, the 11-story, 170-ft-tall building will be connected to SCIF's exi...
 11.22.02



University of Albany and Toyko Electron Construct TEL Albany R&D Facility

DATELINE Albany, N.Y.
The University of Albany and Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) are planning to site a $300-million chip R&D facility at the University's Nanotech complex, comprised of NanoFab I and NanoFab II.  TEL and its partners will invest $20...
 11.21.02



Tulsa Heart Hospital of Saint Francis Breaks Ground on New Building

DATELINE Tulsa, Okla.
Tulsa Heart Hospital of Saint Francis recently broke ground on its 141,000-sf facility in Tulsa, Okla. The project, a joint partnership of local physicians and Saint Francis Health System, is being managed by the Dallas-based Texas Division of contractor ...
 11.21.02



Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Builds New Facility

DATELINE Milwaukee, Wisc.
Columbia St. Mary's Hospital has selected Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK) as lead architect for its new Lake Drive Campus hospital in Milwaukee. The project is a consolidation of the existing St. Mary's and Columbia campuses into a single new replacemen...
 11.19.02



KLA-Tencor Opens Livermore Facility

DATELINE Livermore, Calif.
KLA-Tencor Corp. of San Jose celebrated the opening of its new 120,000-sf Livermore facility in November 2002.   Consolidating twelve training sites, the training and customer support center has now been occupied by 200 employees. The facility h...
 11.19.02



Tufts University Dedicates Center for Biomedical and Nutrition Research

DATELINE Boston, Mass.
Tufts University recently dedicated the $65-million Jaharis Center for Biomedical and Nutrition Research Center, located next to Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. The 180,000-sf center will provide research facilities for the study of im...
 11.15.02



BD Technologies Renovates RTP Facility

DATELINE Research Triangle Park, N.C.
BD Technologies is renovating its 100,000-sf Research Triangle Park facility to create an additional 14 laboratories and space for 35 more employees. The 30-year-old facility currently houses 40 laboratories for research in pharmaceutical drug delivery, a...
 11.15.02



Recovery Point Systems Plans Gaithersburg Hot Site

DATELINE Gaithersburg, Md.
Recovery Point Systems, a Gaithersburg-based disaster recovery and data storage company, is planning to build the nations largest "hot site." The 120,000-sf, $41.2-million facility will accommodate up to 1,000 workers as a backup office facility in t...
 11.15.02



Post & Schnell Shift to Universal Office Layout

DATELINE Philadelphia
Philadelphia-based Post & Schnell are relocating to 80,000 sf at Four Penn Center in Philadelphia. A universal, "one-size-fits-all" 110-sf office plan will be implemented on the three floors the law firm will occupy. Overseen by ar...
 11.15.02



American Urological Association Breaks Ground on Lithicum Headquarters

DATELINE Lithicum, Mc.
The American Urological Association (AUA) recently broke ground on its new $9.5-million headquarters on nearly 10 acres in Lithicum, Md. Constructed by Hitt Contracting, the 87,000-sf facility will provide space for education, research...
 11.15.02



St. Luke's Hospital Completes East Medical Building and Parking Garage

DATELINE Chesterfield, Mo.
St. Luke's Hospital and St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Companies have completed construction of the East Medical Building, the new outpatient center for the Chesterfield, Mo., hospital. Construction of the $26-million design/build projec...
 11.13.02



Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center Plans New Biotech R&D Facilities

DATELINE Torrey Pines, Calif.
The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center has selected Architects Delawie Wilkes Rodriques Barker of San Diego to design two new biotech R&D facilities. Totaling 108,245 sf, the $7.7-million project is located on 6.16-acres in the La Jolla Spectrum Business Par...
 11.11.02



FDA Constructs Silver Springs Utility Plant

DATELINE Silver Spring, Md.
The Food and Drug Administration has contracted Sempra Energy Solutions to construct a central utility plant at its 2.3 million-sf Silver Spring, Md. administration campus. The plant will use renewable energy by incorporating the use of photovoltaic ...
 11.11.02



Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery Renovation Under Way

DATELINE Washington
The Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum, housed in the Old Patent Office Building in Washington, is undergoing a $211 million renovation. Slated for completion in 2006, the facility has been closed and under constru...
 11.8.02



FedEx Plans San Leandro Facility

DATELINE San Leandro, Calif.
FedEx will occupy a 65,000-sf facility on a six-acre parcel in an industrial business park planned in San Leandro, Calif. Developed by McMahon Development Group LLC, the 21-acre park is comprised of nine parcels and will include up to seven addi...
 11.8.02



Baylor University Plans Multi-Use Building

DATELINE Waco, Texas
Baylor University has selected McCarthy to build a four-level, precast concrete structure to house parking, office, and shell space. The $13.3-million, 403,000-sf facility, which recently broke ground, is slated to contain 19,000 sf of office space and 9,...
 11.8.02



Aviation Institute of Maintenance Relocates to Northeast Philadelphia Airport

DATELINE Philadelphia
Aviation Institute of Maintenance has relocated to a $2-million, 16,000-sf facility constructed for the school by Turner Construction at the Northeast Philadelphia Airport.  Formerly known as the Quaker City Institute of Aviation,...
 11.8.02



Coca-Cola Develops Atlanta Museum

DATELINE Atlanta
The Coca-Cola Corp. and The Marcus Foundation, developer of the new Georgia Aquarium, have selected The Jerde Partnership International of Los Angeles to create the master site plan for the new 20-acre Atlanta site to house the World Of Coca-Cola and the ...
 11.8.02



Epsilon Constructs Wakefield Data Center

DATELINE Wakefield, Mass.
Epsilon has awarded Boston-based Structure Tone of Massachusetts the construction management contract for the interior construction of 90,000 sf of new office space and a 10,000-sf data center in Wakefield. ...
 11.8.02



Storage Technology Relocates Regional Office

DATELINE Elkridge, Md.
Storage Technology, a global data storage firm operating as StorageTek, is relocating its regional office from Silver Spring into 25,000-sf at the Lyndwood Executive Center in Elkridge, Md. The Louisville, Colo.-based firm will relocate 135 empl...
 11.8.02



GSA Renovates Switzer Memorial Building

DATELINE Washington
The General Services Administration's National Capital Region has selected architectural/engineering firm HNTB to design the $81.7-million renovation of the Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building in Washington. The complete modernization of the 590,000-sf...
 11.8.02



West Chester University Initiates Major Expansion

DATELINE West Chester, Pa.
West Chester University is engaged in $115-million in campus construction projects. Focusing on graduate education, the Pennsylvania school has partnered with private developer College Park Campus Apartments, an affiliate of GMH Capital Realty of Newton, ...
 11.8.02



IMF Constructs New Washington Facility

DATELINE Washington
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is building a new 650,000-sf facility adjacent to its existing headquarters in Washington. Slated for completion in mid 2005, the building will consolidate several of the IMF's operations in the District. Development ...
 11.8.02



National Surgical Opens Spine Hospital of South Texas

DATELINE San Antonio
National Surgical Hospitals (NSH) opened the 30-bed Spine Hospital of South Texas and an accompanying medical office building in September. A joint venture of NSH and approximately 20 local physicians, the $30-million Stone Oak medical development will sp...
 11.7.02



Idec Pharmaceuticals Breaks Ground on Corporate Headquarters

DATELINE San Diego, Calif.
Idec Pharmaceuticals broke ground in October 2002 on its new five-building corporate headquarters and laboratory facility in San Diego's University Towne Center. San Diego-based Cisterra Partners is developer of the 42.6-acre project, with&...
 11.4.02



Toyota Plans Tijuana Painting and Assembly Facility

DATELINE Tijuana-Tecate, Mexico
Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America has selected Albert Kahn Associates (AKA), in collaboration with local consultant Hermosillo y Asociados Arquitectos S.C. (HyAA) to provide full architectural and engineering services for a new greenfield faci...
 11.1.02



Valero Completes Cogeneration Plant

DATELINE Benicia, Calif.
Valero Energy Corp. has completed construction of a $50-million, 51-megawatt cogeneration plant to power its Benicia refinery. The facility came online in October 2002 and eliminates the possibility of involuntary shutdowns due to rolling blackouts, ...
 11.1.02



City of Jacksonville Plans County Courthouse Complex

DATELINE Jacksonville, Fla.
The City of Jacksonville selected Boston-based Cannon Design to design its $211-million, 1-million-sf county courthouse complex. Cannon provided planning, programming and design services for the project, which included conversion of the old fede...
 11.1.02



Newseum Design Completed

DATELINE Washington
Plans for the new Newseum facility in Washington have been completed by Polshek Partnership Architects and Ralph Appelbaum Associates. The $400-million, 531,000-sf facility will house the six-level, 215,000-sf Newseum, 30,000-sf of retail, approximat...
 11.1.02



DaimlerChrysler Manufacturing Facility Operational

DATELINE Kenosha, Wisc.
DaimlerChrysler's new 543,000-sf state-of-the-art manufacturing facility began production in July 2002. The engine plant is located on a brownfield construction site adjacent to the existing Kenosha Engine Plant in Kenosha, Wisc. The new plant is att...
 11.1.02



Nissan Expands Farmington Hills Technical Center

DATELINE Farmington Hills, Mich.
Nissan Technical Center North America (NTCNA) is engaged in a 126,000-sf expansion of its Technical Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The $38.8-million project is comprised of additions to the engineering building, prototyping, testing, and styling (P...
 11.1.02



Kaiser Completes Parkview Medical Office Building

DATELINE Harbor City, Calif.
Kaiser Permanente has completed construction of the new $20-million Parkview Medical Office Building on Kaiser's Harbor City Medical Center Campus in Harbor City, Calif. The three-story, 106,000-sf structure houses exam and procedure rooms, allowing for o...
 11.1.02



Boston University Plans Center for Chemical Methodologies and Library Development

DATELINE Boston
Boston University will establish the Center for Chemical Methodologies and Library Development with a $10.7-million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health. The project will involve construction o...
 11.1.02



World Airways Consolidates with Morrow Distribution Center

DATELINE Morrow, Ga.
World Airways has leased 70,200 sf in Morrow for an airplane parts distribution warehouse. Located in a 100,200-sf warehouse center, the facility will enable World Airways to consolidate its operations to Atlanta, as the carrier plans to cl...
 11.1.02



Crittenton Hospital Medical Center Plans Expansion and Renovation

DATELINE Rochester Hills, Mich.
Crittenton Hospital Medical Center is planning an $86-million expansion and renovation of its Rochester Hills hospital. Albert Kahn Associates is providing full architectural and engineering services for the 140,000-sf multi-phase project. The new...
 11.1.02



Long Beach USD Constructs Cabrillo Center for Advanced Technology

DATELINE Long Beach, Calif.
Long Beach Unified School District is nearing completion of its largest project in decades, the Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo Center for Advanced Technology. Totalling 22 separate structures spread over a 54-acre site, the $50-million project had three distinct...
 11.1.02



Rensselaer Polytechnic Builds Center for Biotechnology & Interdisciplinary Studies

DATELINE Troy, N.Y.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has selected McCarthy to construct its new $70-million Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies in Troy, N.Y. Upon completion in 2004, the 218,000-sf building will house 60 faculty and more than 300 researche...
 11.1.02



Intronn to Occupy Unique Shared Services Laboratory

DATELINE Gaithersburg, Md.
Intronn, a bioscience company engaged in gene therapy research, will occupy more than 9,000 sf in the 24,000-sf Unique Shared Services Laboratory in Gaithersburg. Currently based in an incubator in Rockville, Intronn will occupy the new facility in M...
 11.1.02



Toyota Expands Mansfield Office

DATELINE Mansfield, Mass.
Toyota has completed the expansion and renovation and of its regional Mansfield office. The eight-month project, performed by Boston-based Shawmut Design and Construction, involved 26,518 sf of renovations and construction of a 3,400-sf addition. ...
 11.1.02



Brooks College Opens Sunnyvale Campus

DATELINE Sunnyvale, Calif.
Brooks College opened the doors of its new 53,318-sf Sunnyvale campus on Oct. 14. The college offers an accelerated 18-month associate degree program for network technology and graphic design. The facility previously housed office and ...
 11.1.02



Congressional Quarterly Builds Washington Headquarters

DATELINE Washington
Political media company Congressional Quarterly  (CQ)  has awarded Chantilly-based R.W. Murray Co. the $1.8-million contract to build its new 42,000-sf headquarters. Located less than two blocks from CQ's existing Washington facility, the new bu...
 11.1.02



Chandler USD Completes Combine Elementary and Middle School

DATELINE Chandler, Ariz.
Chandler Unified School District has completed work with contractor McCarthy on Phase I of the first CM-at-risk public education projects ever awarded in Arizona. A $15.3-million new shared campus housing an elementary and junior high school, Phase I...
 11.1.02



Harvard University Develops Molecular Target Laboratory

DATELINE Cambridge, Mass.
Harvard University will develop the Molecular Target Laboratory with a $40-million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. The laboratory will use high throughput assays to identify disease-causing proteins and disco...
 11.1.02



Neose Completes Manufacturing Plant

DATELINE Horsham, Pa.
Neose Technologies has completed its new $17-million manufacturing plant at its Horsham, Pa., headquarters. Design of the plant, including redesign of Neose's existing plant and the addition of 5,000 sf, began in February 2001. &#...
 11.1.02



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