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News from December 2002

Piedmont Triad Research Park Planned as Biotech Incubator

DATELINE Winston-Salem, N.C.
Piedmont Triad Research Park at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem is slated to become a growing biotech incubator. Expanding the 10-acre park into a 180-acre biotech complex, the development will extend North Carolina's biotechnol...
 12.27.02



Norfolk Cancer Center Completed

DATELINE Brockton, Mass.
Construction of the new Norfolk Cancer Center in Brockton has been completed by East Coast Commercial Construction. The facility is one of the few stand-alone cancer centers in the South Shore area. ...
 12.27.02



Naval Training Center Foundation Renovates Point Loma for Cultural Center

DATELINE Point Loma, Calif.
The Naval Training Center Foundation will utilize a $300,000 grant from California's Office of Historic Preservation to renovate Building 5 of the Liberty Station base conversion project at the former Point Loma Naval Training Center. Building 5, a 1...
 12.23.02



South Shore Hospital Completes Newton Expansion Project

DATELINE Newton, Mass.
The construction of SouthShoreHospital's maternity/surgery/emergency expansion project in Newton, Mass., is now completed. The expansion, involving 125,000-sf of new construction and 55,000-sf of renovations on four levels, was designed by TRO/The Ri...
 12.23.02



UCSD Builds Moores Cancer Center

DATELINE La Jolla, Calif.
The University of California San Diego (UCSD) began construction on the $100-million Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center located on the school's east campus in La Jolla. Slated for completion in 2004, the 270,000-sf facility will be one of 40 buildings ...
 12.23.02



San Jose City Council Develops Bioscience Incubator

DATELINE San Jose, Calif.
The San Jose City Council has approved the creation of a $6.5-million bioscience incubator in the city's Edenvale development. Housing wet labs, offices, common space, and support for up to fifteen bioscience startups, the 33,750-sf facility is expec...
 12.20.02



Patriot Plaza Developed in D.C.

DATELINE Washington
Construction will begin in March 2003 on the first building of Trammel Crow's planned $300-million Patriot Plaza in Washington, D.C. The first phase, designed to accommodate a government or private tenant, consists of a 280,000-sf office fa...
 12.20.02



International Monetary Fund Begins Headquarters Construction

DATELINE Washington
Construction has begun on the International Monetary Fund's new Washington headquarters.  The 650,000-sf facility, designed by New York-based Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and associate architect Weihe Design Group, includes a 450-seat meeting r...
 12.20.02



Montclair State University Plans New Academic Facility

DATELINE Upper Montclair, N.J.
Montclair State University has selected  The S/L/A/M Collaborative of Glastonbury, Conn., to design a new, 6-8 floor academic building. The 190,000-nsf (271,428 gsf) structure will house 52 classrooms of various sizes as well as The College of E...
 12.20.02



Transportation Security Administration Occupies Pentagon City Headquarters

DATELINE Arlington, Va.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will occupy between 25,000 sf and 50,000 sf of furnished and IT-ready space in its new headquarters facility in Pentagon City in January, 2003. By March 1, TSA will occupy a total of 150,000 ...
 12.20.02



St. Luke's Hospital Constructs Heart Center

DATELINE San Francisco
St. Luke's Hospital, an affiliate of Sutter Health System, is constructing a $6.4-million heart center featuring a cardiac catheterization lab. The center, which will also house equipment for non-invasive diagnostic procedures such as echocardiograms and ...
 12.20.02



Better Choice Packaging Relocates In Camden

DATELINE Camden, N.J.
Better Choice Packaging, a packaging and display company serving companies including Hershey, Arm & Hammer, and Bath & Body Works, will relocate operations from a 26,000-sf Camden facility to a newly purchased 50,300-sf, $640,000 facility sit...
 12.20.02



Pharmaceutical Product Development Plans Wilmington Expansion

DATELINE Wilmington, N.C.
Wilmington-based Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) is negotiating construction of an additional 70,000-sf facility at its Barclay Commons campus with developer Cameron. PPD, a contract research firm for pharmaceutical and biotech companies, ha...
 12.20.02



Cardiovascular Center of Excellence Planned in Fort Wayne

DATELINE Fort Wayne, Ind.
Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana has awarded the Dallas office of RTKL the architectural design contract for the development of the Cardiovascular Center of Excellence. The new approximately 75,000-sf, $32-million addition will consolida...
 12.20.02



Lawrence Livermore Laboratory To Build Biocontainment Research Lab

DATELINE Livermore, Calif.
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory has received approval from the federal government to build a laboratory for the study of potential biological weapons in Livermore, Calif. Rated Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3), the lab will enable research in the detection of...
 12.17.02



City of Poway Breaks Ground on Council Chamber and Office Facilities

DATELINE Poway, Calif.
The City of Poway broke ground on a 5,900-sf council chamber building and a two-story 50,400-sf City Hall office building in October 2002. The $14.6-million project was designed by McGraw/Baldwin Architects. Douglas E. Barnhart Inc. is providing...
 12.16.02



STBTC Constructs Nucleic Acid Testing Lab

DATELINE San Antonio
The South Texas Blood & Tissue Center (STBTC) will soon complete a 44,000-sf expansion that will include a nucleic acid testing laboratory enabling earlier detection of Hepatitis C and HIV. The testing process will provide over 80 hospitals and c...
 12.13.02



Sysco Food Services Plans San Antonio Expansion

DATELINE San Antonio
Sysco Food Services of San Antonio LP, a subsidiary of Sysco Corp. of Houston, broke ground in December 2002 on a 110,000-sf expansion of its 310,000-sf San Antonio warehouse and distribution center. The addition, which will add storage for dry,...
 12.13.02



GSA Plans Moultrie Courthouse Expansion

DATELINE Washington
The General Services Administration is planning a 93,000-sf expansion of the 654,000-sf H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse in Washington. Project cost is expected to range from $50- to $100-million. The expansion includes a 79,000-sf addition to the Fa...
 12.13.02



Memphis Cook Convention Center Expands

DATELINE Memphis
The Memphis Cook Convention Center is engaged in a $93-million expansion slated for completion in spring 2003. The expanded center will total 250,000 sf and will feature the new 2,100-seat Cannon Center for the Performing Arts. A 35,000-sf ...
 12.13.02



SEC Expands Capitol Hill Headquarters

DATELINE Washington
The Securities and Exchange Commission will occupy a second building at Station Place in Washington. The lease of up to 360,000 sf, to deliver in 2005, will bring the government agency's facilities to over 1 million sf. Developed by Louis Dreyfus Pro...
 12.13.02



Mykrolis Develops Billerica Headquarters

DATELINE Billerica, Mass.
Mykrolis, formerly Millipore Microelectronics Inc., is relocating its headquarters to 180,000 sf in Billerica. The semiconductor equipment company will finish moving its 250 Massachusetts employees into the building by March 2003. Mykrolis, now an in...
 12.13.02



UTHSC Breaks Ground on Edinburg Research Facility

DATELINE Edinburg, Texas
The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio is broke ground in December on a new $20-million research facility in Edinburg, one of three new facilities being constructed as part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Regional Academic H...
 12.13.02



UCSF Plans Cancer Research Facility

DATELINE San Francisco
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is planning the Mission Bay Cancer Research Center. The research facility, expected to reach completion in 2006, will cost over $100-million. UCSF plans to develop a total of 2.65 million sf of biomedical ...
 12.13.02



SwRI Completes Fuel Testing Lab

DATELINE San Antonio
San Antonio-based Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has completed a 5,000-sf fuel contamination research and testing laboratory. The facility houses over 4,200-sf of lab space and 12 automated test cells, one dedicated to hybrid fuel cell testing, two t...
 12.13.02



APL Logistics Plans Distribution Facility

DATELINE Douglas County, Ga.
APL Logistics has selected Catellus Development Corp. of San Francisco to develop its planned three-building, 992,000-sf warehouse distribution complex in Douglas County, Ga. Slated for completion in 2004, the project could expand up to 1.3-million-sf. Ca...
 12.13.02



Loudon Hospital Renovates Cornwall Campus

DATELINE Leesburg, Va.
Loudon Hospital in Leesburg, Va., is engaged in a 9,400-sf renovation of its Cornwall campus that will add a 16-bed emergency department. The $2.1-million project, slated for completion in mid-January 2003, is designed to give the hospital the f...
 12.13.02



Anne Arundel Medical Center Expands in Annapolis

DATELINE Annapolis, Md.
Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) in Annapolis, Md., is engaged in a $13-million expansion and renovation of its two-story Cancer Center. Project expenses involve $4-million in construction costs and $9-million for new technology, inc...
 12.13.02



Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial Planned in Washington

DATELINE Washington
The Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial is slated for construction in Washington. The $100-million project, managed by Concord Partners of Washington, will include a 50,000-sf addition to the 30,000-sf National Bank of Washington building purc...
 12.13.02



Serologicals Builds Kansas Plant

DATELINE Lawrence, Kan.
Serologicals Corp. of Atlanta is planning to construct a $28-million plant to manufacture its EX-CYTE serum-free cell culture supplement for the biotech industry. Ground will be broken as early as the first quarter of 2003, with completion slate...
 12.13.02



UNC School of Medicine Builds Bioinformatics Facility

DATELINE Chapel Hill, N.C.
The University of North Carolina School of Medicine is nearing completion of the $23.5-million Bioinformatics Building in Chapel Hill. The 152,000-sf project was designed by Brown Jurkowski Architectural Collaborative PA. Contractor for the project i...
 12.13.02



John Muir/Mt. Diablo Health System Expands in San Ramon

DATELINE San Ramon, Calif.
John Muir/Diablo Primary Care Medical Group will occupy 10,000 sf at San Ramon's Bishop Ranch 9 business park. Initially housing x-ray, laboratory, and pediatric functions, the facility will also open an urgent care facility in sp...
 12.13.02



Greater Richmond Convention Center Renovation Under Way

DATELINE Richmond, Va.
The Greater Richmond Convention Center, originally built to 167,000 sf in 1986, is undergoing a $165-million renovation and expansion that will enlarge the facility to almost 700,000 sf. Slated to open in February 2003, the Richmond, Va., center will hous...
 12.13.02



American BioFuels Relocates Production Operations to Bakersfield

DATELINE Bakersfield, Calif.
American BioFuels is relocating its production operations to Bakersfield, Calif., as part of a joint venture with Hondo Chemical of Bakersfield. American BioFuels, based in San Diego, will move from a building in Adelanto which processed 2.5 million ...
 12.9.02



San Diego's Regional Transportation Center Under Construction

DATELINE San Diego
The $17.9-million Regional Transportation Center is under construction in San Diego. Located on a 1.4-acre site in City Heights, the project will feature a 60,000-sf facility that will promote awareness of alternative fuel vehicles. The building is being ...
 12.9.02



UCSF Completes Genentech Hall

DATELINE San Francisco, Calif.
The University of California, San Francisco has completed the 434,000-sf Genentech Hall on its Mission Bay Campus. Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership served as design consultant to SmithGroup for the facility, which is the first to be constructed on th...
 12.6.02



California Lutheran University Completes Spies-Bornemann Center for Education and Technology

DATELINE Thousand Oaks, Calif.
California Lutheran University (CLU) in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has completed the new two-story, 24,000-sf Spies Bornemann Center for Education and Technology. Designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership of Los Angeles, the facility includes administrativ...
 12.6.02



Washington Convention Center Nears Completion

DATELINE Washington
The $800-million Washington Convention Center is slated for completion by March 31, 2003. Bethesda's Clark Construction Group is the general contractor for the 2.3-million-sf facility, which will house over 700,000-sf of exhibit hall space in five ha...
 12.6.02



Fort Devens Base Conversion Under Way

DATELINE Harvard, Mass.
The former site of the 4,400-acre Fort Devens is being developed by MassDevelopment. The new community features 8.5-million sf of industrial and technology space, 282 residential units, retail, dining, and a hotel. ...
 12.6.02



NASA Plans Moffett Field R&D Park

DATELINE San Jose, Calif.
NASA's current 20-year plan for San Jose's Moffett Field involves creation of a research and development park including almost 2,000 residential units. U.C. Santa Cruz, San Jose State University, and DeAnza-Foothill Community College district may open sat...
 12.6.02



NOAA To Begin Construction on Suitland Federal Center Offices

DATELINE Washington
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is planning to begin construction on its new 208,000-sf offices in Washington's Suitland Federal Center. Housing millions of dollars of technical equipment, the facility will feature a 140,000-sf ...
 12.6.02



Northwestern University Opens Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly

DATELINE Evanston, Ill.
Northwestern University recently opened the 40,000-sf Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly in Evanston, Ill. The facility encompasses wet chemistry and complementing laboratories, shared microscope and laser facilities, offices, a semina...
 12.6.02



Drexel University Plans Institute for Advanced Forensic Engineering

DATELINE Philadelphia
Drexel University will partner with Swarthmore-based e4n-6 Corp., a computer forensics lab, and El Segundo, Calif.-base Aerospace Corp., a nonprofit defense research firm, to create the Institute for Advanced Forensic Engineering. Aerospace Corp. wil...
 12.6.02



Icon Clinical Consolidates in Redwood City

DATELINE Redwood City, Calif.
Icon Clinical Research will consolidate operations totalling 25,000 sf from offices in San Bruno and Mountain View with a move in early 2003 to a five-story R&D and office building in Redwood City. Icon provides biometric and clinical r...
 12.6.02



Universal Leaf Renovates Oxford Facility

DATELINE Oxford, Va.
Richmond, Va.-based Universal Leaf Tobacco Co. is investing $11-million to renovate a 350,000-sf office and warehouse facility in Oxford. Universal Leaf recently completed the construction of a $100-million processing plant in Nash County and the $28-mill...
 12.6.02



UC San Diego Breaks Ground on Moores Cancer Center

DATELINE La Jolla, Calif.
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla has launched the construction of the new Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center, a 270,000-sf facility that will unite the Cancer Center's clinical, research, education, and outreach activitie...
 12.6.02



Children's Hospital Renovates Stem Cell Transplant Unit

DATELINE Boston
Children's Hospital in Boston has completed extensive renovations to its stem cell transplant unit. Housing 13 rooms for patients undergoing bone marrow transplant therapy, the 8,000-sf acute care project includes associated medical support spac...
 12.6.02



University of Alabama Develops Student Recreation Center

DATELINE Tuscaloosa, Ala.
The University of Alabama has awarded Holliston-based Wayne J. Griffin Electric the contract to perform all electrical, lighting, HVAC and safety services for renovations and a two-story addition at the new student recreation...
 12.6.02



El Camino Hospital Plans New San Jose Facility

DATELINE San Jose, Calif.
San Jose's El Camino Hospital is planning a new four-story, $298-million hospital. With 248 beds in 224 patient rooms, over 90% of the rooms in the new facility will be private. The 450,000-sf tower will be constructed in front of El Camino's existing hop...
 12.6.02



Integra Health Develops San Antonio Medical Condominiums

DATELINE San Antonio
Integra Health of San Antonio is developing "professional condominiums" for the medical industry in two office parks in the city. The individual units, for sale rather than lease, will range in size from 4,000 sf to 6,000 sf. Phas...
 12.6.02



Static Control Components Expands in Sanford

DATELINE Sanford, N.C.
Static Control Components of Sanford is planning to expand with the construction of an 80,000-sf manufacturing facility accommodating the company's photoelectronics interests. The building is slated for occupancy in June 2003. ...
 12.6.02



New Medical Office Campus Developed in Kearney Mesa

DATELINE Kearney Mesa, Calif.
A new 215,000-sf medical office campus will be developed adjacent to Sharp Memorial Hospital in Kearney Mesa, Calif. Two Dallas-based firms, architect Perkins & Will CRA and developer Cambridge Holdings, are planning the three-phase project. The first...
 12.2.02



U.S. Probation Department Develops San Diego Office

DATELINE San Diego
The U.S. Probation Department is building out the sixth, seventh and tenth floors of 101 West Broadway in San Diego. Constructed by San Diego-based Johnson & Jennings General Contracting, the $2-million, 47,000-sf project began in September and is sla...
 12.2.02



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