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Texas NeuroRehab Center broke ground in May 2004 on a $6.5-million project that will expand its long-term acute care unit from 31 beds to 47. The Austin center specializes in the treatment of traumatic brain injury, neurological illness, pulmonary disease, orthopedic, and other complex conditions. The project team on the 9,200-sf expansion includes LZT Architects of Austin and American Constructors. A therapeutic indoor pool may also be constructed at the center.

California State University Sacramento has received a gift of over 280 acres in south Placer County, the proposed site for the university’s Placer campus. Groundbreaking on the new campus could occur as early as spring 2006.

The Pennsylvania College of Optometry is planning a new Student Community Center to be constructed at the Elkins Park Campus. Granary Associates of Philadelphia has been selected to provide architecture and interior design services. The Center will house state-of-the-art fitness and recreation facilities and provide a center for student life on campus. It will also serve as a meeting place for continuing education classes and alumni functions.

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis opened the first phase of the Hamilton Eye Institute in early May 2004. The project includes ten research laboratories and a technologically advanced administrative suite equipped to provide telemedicine service. The facility will encompass 60,000-sf when it reaches completion in 2005. The final construction phase will create clinical facilities on the second, third, and fourth floors.

A new diagnostic biotech facility will be constructed on 100 acres south of the Texas Medical Center. The $80-million facility will be funded by $25 million from the Texas Enterprise Fund, $25 million each from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Texas Health Science Center, and $5 million from the University of Texas System.