The Brooks City-Base conversion project in San Antonio is progressing with the lease of over 26,000-sf by Earth Tech, a global provider of environmental services as well as engineering, architectural, construction, and infrastructure development. Earth Tech, a subsidiary of Tyco International Ltd., will occupy the building that formerly housed the Base Exchange in September of 2003. Earth Tech was recently selected by the Environmental Protection Agency to handle environmental response and remediation work for Region 6, which covers Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas.
Emergistics, a San Antonio-based provider of preparedness training, has signed a multi-year lease for 2,362-sf of Building 625 in Brooks City-Base. Emergistics offers training to emergency response departments, law enforcement agencies, private firms, and academic institutions on how to protect themselves from encounters with chemical, biological, or radiological substances, or acts of terrorism. The facility will serve as Emergistics’ headquarters; the firm also has an office in Washington, D.C.
Renovations began in August 2002 on the Center for Excellence in BioProcessing and Biotechnology at Brooks City-Base. The facility will teach military personnel and civilians how to handle biosensors, vaccines, and other biological products.
