Industry News

Construction on the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center in Austin has reached completion. The newly expanded 30,000-sf museum features exhibit space, a new 140-seat theater, a darkroom, and library equipment storage areas. The project also included renovation and expansion of the adjacent Carver Public Library. The project contractor was Cadence McShane Corp. of Dallas.

The Wyandot Center for Community Behaivoral Healthcare broke ground on December 3, 2004, on a new 39,000-sf mental health facility in Kansas City, Kan. The $6-million center is sited on 17 acres and will act as the county's designated mental health facility. Completion is expected in early 2006. The Eby Group of Olathe is the project coordinator.

The City of Milwaukee is engaged in a $44-million restoration of its historic 108-year-old City Hall. Designed by architectural firm Engberg Anderson, the restoration project includes eight stories and a basement and is slated for completion in 2008.

The University of Louisville has received $10.25 million from a bill approved by the U.S. Senate to fund the construction of a 134,700-sf biomedical research building. The facility will be constructed on the university's health sciences campus. The funding is part of $28 million the university will receive to support research initiatives.

FivePrime Therapeutics will sublease an entire floor in the new 190,000-sf J. David Gladstone Institutes building at Mission Bay in San Francisco. The Gladstone building was dedicated on December 6, 2004. The facility will enable FivePrime to develop new protein and antibody therapeutics utilizing an accelerated drug discovery approach. FivePrime will relocate its South San Francisco operations to the Gladstone building in San Francisco, a city which has a payroll tax exemption for biotech companies.