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News from April 2003

Structural Genomix Partners with Eli Lilly

DATELINE San Diego
San Diego-based Structural GenomiX will lease a 10,000-sf facility for Eli Lilly & Co. as part of a research collaboration announced April 21, 2003. Lilly will install technology in the facility over the course of 12 to 18 months, after which Lilly can op...
 4.28.03



Pfizer Awards Laboratory Contract to Montbleau Associates

DATELINE Torrey Pines, Calif.
Pfizer has awarded Montbleau and Associates the contract for laboratory furniture and architectural woodwork at seven facilities totaling 500,000 sf in Torrey Pines, Calif. The project architect is Kornberg Associates with DPR Construction as general cont...
 4.28.03



Convergys Opens Bangalore Call Center

DATELINE Bangalore, India
Convergys Corp. is constructing a 170,000-sf call center in Bangalore, India. Housing employee testing areas, training rooms, a language laboratory, and a cafeteria, the facility will accommodate over 3,000 employees when it opens in May of 2003. Convergy...
 4.26.03



Army Corps of Engineers Expands Defense Threat Reduction Center

DATELINE Fort Belvoir, Md.
The Army Corps of Engineers has contracted Centex Construction of Fairfax, Va., to construct a $60-million addition to the Andrew T. McNamara Building Defense Threat Reduction Center at Fort Belvoir. The 325,000-sf, six-story facility will be accompanied ...
 4.25.03



Waveset Technologies Relocates Austin Headquarters

DATELINE Austin, Texas
Waveset Technologies, a supplier of secure identity management software, has relocated its headquarters from 10,000 sf to 16,000 sf in Austin. The move expands the firm’s space by over fifty percent and includes a visitor demonstration and trai...
 4.25.03



Central Texas Technology Center Under Construction

DATELINE New Braunfels, Texas
The $4-million Central Texas Technology Center, now under construction in New Braunfels, Texas, is slated for completion in March 2004. The center will provide vocational and technical training programs including welding technologies, allied construction ...
 4.25.03



Veterans Affairs Medical Center to Break Ground on City of Medicine

DATELINE Durham, N.C.
The Veterans Affairs Medical Center is planning to break ground in late 2003 on the first two buildings of its planned $160-million City of Medicine campus in Durham. Totalling 96,000 sf of office and retail space, the two facilities will be developed by ...
 4.25.03



Ford Plans Parts Distribution Facility

DATELINE McDonough, Ga.
Ford Motor Co. will begin construction in June 2003 on a new parts distribution facility in McDonough, Ga. The 231,000-sf facility will replace a 627,000-sf McDonough building; Ford is replacing approximately ten larger parts facilities nationwide with a ...
 4.25.03



New Jersey State Aquarium Plans Camden Expansion

DATELINE Camden, N.J.
The New Jersey State Aquarium is planning to break ground on a $33.6-million expansion in late summer of 2003. Designed by Columbus, Ohio-based Steiner + Associates, the $33.6-million project will expand the Camden aquarium by 72,000 sf; retail, entertain...
 4.25.03



Virtua Memorial Hospital Renovates Cardiac Catheterization Lab

DATELINE Burlington County, N.J.
Virtua Memorial Hospital Burlington County has completed the $770,000 renovation of its low-risk cardiac catheterization laboratory, including the installation of new imaging technology. ...
 4.25.03



Kaiser Opens Daly City Medical Offices

DATELINE Daly City, Calif.
Kaiser Permanente is opening a new 120,000-sf medical office building in Daly City, Calif. The facility, owned by King Asset Management of Palo Alto, will undergo a $31-million renovation prior to the relocation of 72 healthcare providers from Kaiser̵...
 4.25.03



British Airways Outsources FM to EMCOR

DATELINE United Kingdom
British Airways has awarded EMCOR Group a three-year contract valued at $40 million annually to be the airline's single-source provider of facilities management services for the majority of British Airway's UK property portfolio. The new agreeme...
 4.24.03



Toyodabo Plans Kentucky Plant

DATELINE Lebanon, Ky.
Toyodabo Manufacturing Kentucky LLC is planning to construct a $9.8 million manufacturing facility in Lebanon, Ky. The facility will manufacture molded headliners for the automobile industry and is expected to begin production in 2004. The company is a di...
 4.22.03



Stewart & Stevenson Open Houston Training Center

DATELINE Houston
Stewart & Stevenson Services will open a new 18,000-sf training center in Houston's Garden Oaks industrial area in May of 2003. The facility will house classrooms and labs for diesel engine and transmission training for Stewart & Stevenson technicians, cu...
 4.22.03



Samlip Industrial Co. To Open Automotive Manufacturing Facility

DATELINE Alexander City, Ala.
South Korea-based Samlip Industrial Co. is planning a new 130,000-sf facility in Alexander City, Ala., for the manufacture of automotive lighting parts and systems. The $53-million facility will be sited on 50 acres in the Alexander City Airport...
 4.22.03



OHSU Constructs Primate Facility

DATELINE Beaverton, Ore.
Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) is constructing a new $35,000-sf facility at its Oregon National Primate Research Institute in Beaverton. Slated for completion in June 2004, the $11-million research facility will house 900 rhesus monkeys, addi...
 4.22.03



UCSD Builds Elliott Field Structures Lab

DATELINE San Diego
The University of California San Diego has selected general contractor Taylor Frager to build the Elliott Field Structures Lab. The $2-million earthquake simulation facility was designed by Hodges & Hodges Architecture. ...
 4.21.03



Kaiser Permanente Recognized by H2E

DATELINE Oakland, Calif.
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has been recognized for notable accomplishments by H2E (Hospitals for a Healthy Environment), a partnership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the American Hospital Association, the American Nurses Associa...
 4.21.03



Forensics Lab On "Top 10 Green Projects" List

DATELINE San Mateo, Calif.
The San Mateo County Forensics Laboratory and Coroner's Office in San Mateo, California, is included on the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment 2003 list of "Top 10 Green Projects" which recognizes architectural design solutions ...
 4.21.03



Unisys Occupies Plaza America III in Reston

DATELINE Reston, Va.
Unisys, a worldwide IT services and solutions company, will occupy 280,000 sf of office space at Plaza America III. Located adjacent to Reston Town Center, the facility is part of the 1.2 million-sf Plaza America mixed-use development. The lease is part o...
 4.18.03



GSA Breaks Ground on NOAA Satellite Operations Center

DATELINE Suitland, Md.
The General Services Administration and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) broke ground on the new NOAA satellite operations center on April 11, 2003. Designed by Santa Monica-based Morphosis and Einhorn Yaffee Prescott of Washington...
 4.18.03



New Oakland Police Station Planned

DATELINE Oakland, Calif.
The Oakland City Council has selected developer Lennar Swinerton Group to construct a new Oakland Police Station. The current police facility will be demolished and replaced by the $160-million project, which includes 250,000-sf of police operations and o...
 4.18.03



S.C. Johnson Develops Atlanta Distribution Warehouse

DATELINE Atlanta
S.C. Johnson & Son, a privately held Wisconsin company, has selected contractor Simmons Vedder & Co. of Austin, Texas, to build a 500,000-sf distribution warehouse in Atlanta. The $14-million S.C. Johnson Wax facility will be the second warehouse built by...
 4.18.03



"Green" Rosegarden Public Library Breaks Ground

DATELINE San Jose, Calif.
The $7-million, 17,000-sf Rosegarden Public Library will break ground this summer in San Jose, Calif. Designed by the San Francisco office of HGA Architects, the project is slated for completion by fall 2004. Using the latest techniques of sustainabl...
 4.17.03



Floyd Memorial Hospital Plans New Albany Expansion

DATELINE New Albany, Ind.
Floyd Memorial Hospital is planning a $50-million expansion of its New Albany, Ind., facility. The 250,00-sf expansion will enhance the hospital's ability to care for cardiac patients and expand other services. Features of the expansion include: A&...
 4.16.03



Serologicals To Construct Lawrence Manufacturing Plant

DATELINE Lawrence, Mo.
Serologicals Corp. has awarded CRB Builders LLC of St. Louis the $26-million design/build contract for a new plant in Lawrence, Mo. Most of the design work for the project will be provided by the St. Louis office of Kansas City-based Clark Richardson...
 4.16.03



Kaiser Permanente Completes Harbor MacArthur Medical Office Building Phase III

DATELINE Santa Ana, Calif.
Kaiser Permanente has completed the third phase of the new Harbor MacArthur Medical Office Building in Santa Ana, Calif. Designed by Taylor & Associates Architects of Newport Beach, the three-story, 32,000-sf facility adjoins the existing structure. The e...
 4.15.03



Southwestern Community College Builds Student Services Center

DATELINE Chula Vista, Calif.
Southwestern Community College District has selected San Diego-based O'Connor Construction Management to oversee the development of the $10.5-million One Stop Student Services Center and the $5.2-million Child Development Center. Sited on the college's ma...
 4.14.03



City of Coronado Designs City Hall Complex

DATELINE Coronado, Calif.
The City of Coronado has selected Robbins Jorgensen Christopher (RJC) of San Diego to design its new $30-million city hall and community center complex. Construction will begin in summer of 2003 and reach completion in fall of 2004. The project is sited o...
 4.14.03



San Diego Cancer Center Plans Encinitas Office

DATELINE Encinitas, Calif.
The San Diego Cancer Center is working with Bycor General Contractors to develop a two-story, 39,000-sf medical office building in Encinitas. The $4.1-million facility was designed by architect Ware Malcomb. ...
 4.14.03



Merck Expands Facilities

DATELINE Boston
Merck is developing a 300,000-sf research center in Boston slated for completion in 2004. Merck is also adding 35,000 sf to its 128,000-sf  San Diego facility. ...
 4.12.03



Analogic Corp. Builds Peabody Facility

DATELINE Peabody, Mass.
Analogic Corp. is planning to construct an additional 100,000 sf facility on its 65-acre Peabody headquarters campus. The development will accommodate the relocation of two company divisions to the campus. Life Care Systems, a fetal monitoring division, w...
 4.11.03



Christus Santa Rosa Medical Center To Expand

DATELINE San Antonio
Christus Santa Rosa Medical Center is planning a $4-million expansion of its San Antonio hospital. Ground will be broken on a new 9,500-sf emergency department in June of 2003. 1,700 sf of space in the current emergency department will be renovated, and a...
 4.11.03



Boston University Develops New Sports Facilities

DATELINE Boston
Boston University is engaged in a $220-million fitness center and arena project designed by architect Cannon Design. The 270,000-sf fitness and recreation center will house a competition-sized pool, a wellness center, a full-service sports medicine f...
 4.11.03



University of Sacramento Plans Campus

DATELINE Sacramento, Calif.
The University of Sacramento is planning to develop a private Catholic University at two locations in the Sacramento region. The $350-million project includes the construction of a full-service 250-acre residential campus at Mahler Field and the...
 4.11.03



Tiffany & Co. Create Precious Metal Processing Facility

DATELINE Cranston, R.I.
Tiffany & Co. of Cranston, R.I., have selected Integrated Builders of Braintree to renovate and retrofit approximately 30,000 sf of existing industrial space as a precious metal processing facility. SMRT of Portland is serving as architect and engineer fo...
 4.11.03



University of the Pacific School of Dentistry Plans Expansion

DATELINE San Francisco
The University of the Pacific School of Dentistry is planning to develop the $15-million Molinari Project, an addition to the western side of the school’s San Francisco campus. The 60,000-sf expansion will house a clinical research center, new simul...
 4.11.03



Centocor Relocates Headquarters to Spring House

DATELINE Spring House, Pa.
Centocor is planning to construct a new headquarters facility in Spring House, Pa., doubling the capacity of the Malvern site that the company will vacate. Occupancy is slated for the fourth quarter of 2005, with construction reaching completion by the en...
 4.11.03



California Academy of Sciences Develops San Francisco Facilities

DATELINE San Francisco
The California Academy of Sciences will lease 204,000 sf south of Market Street in San Francisco as a temporary home while eleven of the organization’s twelve buildings in Golden Gate Park are razed and a new 400,000-sf facility is built. The tempor...
 4.11.03



Titan Plans Anne Arundel County Facility

DATELINE Anne Arundel County, Va.
Titan, a San Diego-based telecom consultant, has pre-leased 157,000 sf in a planned facility at Anne Arundel County’s National Business Park. Construction is expected to break ground in the second quarter of 2003 on the $26-million facility; de...
 4.11.03



Catholic University Opens Pryzbyla Student Center

DATELINE Washington, D.C.
Catholic University celebrated the official opening of the Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center in Washington on April 10, 2003. The 104,000-sf, $27-million building was designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and built by Clark Construction Group. The center...
 4.11.03



British Ministry of Defense Awards Dyncorp FM Contract

DATELINE Great Britain
The British Ministry of Defense has awarded Dyncorp International a $948-million contract to manage all of the non-military support for 130 army locations throughout England, Scotland, and Wales. The 10-year contract will assign up to 2000 employees and w...
 4.11.03



Purdue University Builds Bindley Bioscience Center

DATELINE West Lafayette, Ind.
Construction has begun on the new Bindley Bioscience Center, a research building at Purdue University for their campus in West Lafayette, Indiana. The biosciences and engineering facility is one of five centers planned for a new $100-million Discover...
 4.8.03



Palomar Pomerado Health Expands Facilities

DATELINE Escondido, Calif.
Palomar Pomerado Health has selected Anshen + Allen of Los Angeles to design the $210-million expansion of Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, Calif. and the $63-million expansion of Pomerado Hospital. ...
 4.7.03



Loomis Chaffee School Designs New Facilities

DATELINE Windsor, Conn.
The Loomis Chaffee School has selected Boston-based William Rawn Associates, Architects to design a new performing arts center and classroom building on the school's Windsor, Conn., campus. The cost for both projects is $32 million. ...
 4.4.03



PeopleSoft Constructs Pleasanton Facility

DATELINE Pleasanton, Calif.
Software firm PeopleSoft is constructing a 180,000-sf facility on 20 acres in Pleasanton, Calif. The $45-million project is expected to reach completion in the third quarter of 2003.   ...
 4.4.03



Biodynamic Research Breaks Ground on San Antonio Facility

DATELINE San Antonio
Biodynamic Research Corp. (BRC) will lease 38,000 sf in a new 70,045-sf single-story tech building in San Antonio. Ground was recently broken on the facility, the second phase of the University Heights Tech Center, by developer R.L. Wo...
 4.4.03



NVR Building Products Relocates to Delanco

DATELINE Delanco, N.J.
NVR Building Products will house its product manufacturing division in a 131,000 sf facility on fifty acres in Delanco, N.J. The building will be constructed by Charlotte, N.C.-based real estate developer The Keith Corp. The $12-million project is slated ...
 4.4.03



Strategic Data Services Develops Missile Silo Data Center

DATELINE Roswell, N.M.
Roswell, N.M.-based Strategic Data Systems is developing a facility capable of hosting 1 million gigabytes of data in in two former Atlas F nuclear missile silos. Comprising 1.2 million sf, the 22-floor facility will have 100 servers on each floor. T...
 4.4.03



The University of Maryland Develops Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building

DATELINE College Park, Md.
The University of Maryland has selected Bethesda-based Clark Construction as the general contractor for the $39-million Jeong H. Kim engineering building located on the school’s College Park campus. Designed by Oudens+Knopp/SmithGroup, the facility ...
 4.4.03



Waveworks Digital Media Relocates to Arlington

DATELINE Arlington, Va.
Waveworks Digital Media has relocated from Arlington to an 8,000-sf facility in McLean, Va. The twenty-year-old facility accommodates the post production shop’s fifteen employees and includes video suites, a music production facility, two audio room...
 4.4.03



FDIC Expands Arlington Offices

DATELINE Arlington, Va.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) will expand its main office in Arlington's Virginia Square, adding 415,472 sf to its 370,000-sf campus. The $75-million development will accommodate an additional 1,100 employees. Comprised of two nine-story towe...
 4.3.03



Entegris Expands Manufacturing Operations in Germany

DATELINE Bad Rapaneau, Germany
Entegris Inc., a Chaska-based manufacturer of products to protect semiconductors during shipment, has expanded manufacturing capabilities at its Bad Rapaneau, Germany facility to make both 150 mm and 200 mm Ultrapak wafer carriers. ...
 4.1.03



AMD-Fujitsu Plans Sunnyvale Chip Manufacturing Plant

DATELINE Sunnyvale, Calif.
FASL LLC, a company merging the flash memory operations of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Fujitsu, is planning to build a chipmaking plant in Sunnyvale, Calif. AMD's Fab 25 plant in Austin, which manufactures only flash memory chips, will...
 4.1.03



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