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Westminster College Plans Science Center
Westminster College is planning to construct a $30-million, 60,000-sf Science Center on its Salt Lake City campus. The three-story facility will house 14 undergraduate research labs, 14 regular labs, 2 seminar classrooms, 2 general classrooms, 1 informatics lab, faculty offices, and greenhouse spaces. Employing technologies including wireless computing, image capturing microscopes, modeling and miniaturization capabilities, and NMR capability, the building will be designed with flexible, open labs to foster interaction and enable reconfiguration.
United Therapeutics Production Lab Nears Completion in Silver Spring
United Therapeutics will complete construction on its $32-million laboratory production facility in Silver Spring, Md., in spring of 2006. Sited adjacent to the company's existing biotech headquarters, the 50,000-sf, three-story building was developed and funded by Wachovia Development, who will lease it back to United Therapeutics through 2011. The facility, which broke ground in 2004, will accommodate drug development and pilot production.
University of Kansas Biology Center Expansion to House Pharmaceutical Collection
The University of Kansas will begin construction in spring 2006 on a 45,000-sf expansion of the Structural Biology Center on its Lawrence campus. Enabling the center to house one of the nation's most extensive collections of pharmaceutical compounds (specifically those intended to treat cancer), the $20-million addition will also contain laboratories, offices, and conference rooms. As the third and final phase of the center, the project is expected to reach completion in mid-2007.
Wareham Development Creates Emeryville Biotech Center
San Rafael, Calif.-based Wareham Development will begin construction in June 2006 on the third phase of its EmeryStation complex in Emeryville, Calif. The 230,000-sf biotech project will house lab and office space in four-stories atop two levels of underground parking. The facility is slated for completion in summer of 2007.
New York City Develops Commercial Bioscience Park
New York City is planning to develop a commercial bioscience park in metropolitan New York. Sited on 4.7 acres on the Bellevue Hospital campus, the $700-million project will provide 870,000 sf of office and laboratory space. Dubbed the East River Science Park, the development will be the largest of its kind in the metropolitan area.