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Charles River Laboratories opened a 450,000-sf preclinical research center in Reno, Calif., in fall of 2007. Sited in Truckee Meadows, the BSL-2 facility is among the five largest animal testing laboratories in the country and accommodates drug research on rodents, dogs, and monkeys. Charles River invested $107 million to renovate the facility, not including laboratory equipment. The first floor houses a large chemical laboratory and the 50,000-sf second floor houses animal research. The center employs 400 staff members with a projected 900 employees in a few years.

Kettering University broke ground in late fall of 2007 on the 12,000-sf Science and Technology Incubator Building in Flint, Mich. The $2.7 million multi-tenant facility will house ten 500-sf dedicated research laboratory suites and ten executive offices. Providing space for scientific and technologically-based start-up companies, the project will begin construction in spring of 2008 and reach completion in spring of 2009.

It is easy to comply with environmental regulations when fluorescent bulb recycling efforts are automatically updated and quantified. As a result, you are years ahead of most competitors, and prospective clients can swiftly compare an actual "green" track record with the somewhat vague promises of other property management companies. It wasn't always this way for CB Richard Ellis (CBRE), a global leader in commercial real estate services.

Dalhousie University, in partnership with Capital Health and the IWK Health Centre, is planning to construct the $42 million Life Sciences Research Institute (LSRI) in Halifax. Designed by Halifax-based WHW Architects, the 115,000-sf, five-story LSRI will house post-incubator research projects and laboratory space for tenants, two floors of labs for the Brain Repair Centre, and a CL2/APL2 Integrated Animal Care Facility (IACF) for non-severe biological agent research on the fifth floor.

Situated as the symbolic heart of a newly transformed three million-sf research and administrative campus, the General Service Administration’s (GSA) and US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new Central Shared Use Building was recognized by two leading professional societies in the Mid-Atlantic region.