Industry News

The Department of Defense  has awarded a $79-million contract to the Dick Corp . for construction work at the Hurricane Ivan-damaged Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla. The project consists of two multiple-story facilities housing visitors' quarters, a gym for officers and enlisted personnel, and a rescue-swimmer training center.

The Environmental Protection Agency broke ground in early June 2005 on its new Region 8 headquarters in Denver, Colo. The $90-million, 292,000-sf facility will house office and commercial space.

The Birmingham City School District has begun construction on a new two-story, 265,000-sf high school in Ensley, Ala. The $31-million project includes 90 classrooms, a 450-seat cafeteria, an auditorium, administrative offices, a media center, competition and practice gymnasiums, a greenhouse, an auto-repair technology shop, a football stadium, and a multi-purpose practice field.

Glazer's Wholesale Distributors, a Dallas-based wine and liquor distributor, is construction a $10-million facility on 13 acres in St. Charles, Mo. Glazer's will relocate from 160,000 sf of leased space in St. Louis to the new 200,000-sf to 225,000-sf building when it becomes operational in February of 2007. Construction on the new building is expected to commence by the end of 2005 with completion expected in 2006.

Biotechnology firm Genitope is relocating its headquarters and manufacturing operations from Redwood City to 220,0000 sf in Fremont, Calif. Genitope has signed two fifteen and a half year leases for two facilities in the Ardenwood Technology Park at $2.35 per square foot or $517,000 per month. The facilities, which will cost $60 million to build out, will be occupied by Genitope upon completion of construction in 2006.