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Wyandot Center Breaks Ground on Kansas City Facility
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.
City of Milwaukee Restores City Hall
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.
University of Louisville Plans Biomedical Research Building
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 Occupies San Francisco's Mission Bay
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.
Alta Bates Plans Oakland Hospital
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, a Sutter Health affiliate, is planning to construct a 350-bed hospital in Oakland. With a potential construction cost of over $600 million, the facility would replace inpatient space at Alta Bates Summit Medical Centers in Berkeley and Oakland and would be constructed to meet California's state seismic safety standards that take effect in 2013. Groundbreaking is expected to commence on the facility in approximately three years.