Industry News

The University of South Florida-Lakeland is planning to develop a $200-million campus and research park on 500 acres located between Orlando and Tampa in Lakeland, Fla. The 1 milllion-square foot campus will be accommodate 16,000-students, dorm space for 500, and 4,500 parking spaces when it opens in 2009. The project will include office and retail spce.

Children's Medical Center in Dallas has initiated an $18-million expansion adjacent to its existing hospital. Designed by HKS Inc., the 142,300-sf building is slated to open in summer of 2006. The construction manager for the project is the Dallas office of Gilbane Building Co.

The City of Denver is planning to construct a new $378-million Justice Center. The master plan for the facility, designed by David Owen Tryba Architects of Denver, includes a 320,428-sf courthouse with 35 criminal courtrooms; a 430,494-sf detention center holding 1,500 inmates; two arraignment courts; and 684-car parking garage plus 204 additional staff parking spaces.

The University of Connecticut dedicated its new 226,000-sf Pharmacy/Biology Building on October 21, 2005. The 226,000-sf facility was constructed with a cold room on every floor and houses laboratory and office space for the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Physiology and Neurobiology. The School of Pharmacy is also located in the building in a wing featuring classrooms, labs, offices, conference rooms, and a library.

Roche Molecular Systems will break ground on a 138,000-sf research facility in Pleasanton, Calif., in early 2006. Sited on 33 acres, the three-story building will accommodate 150 employees engaged in marketing, financial, and R&D operations when it reaches completion in mid-2007.