Industry News

Andrx Corp. has awarded O’Neal Inc. of Greenville, S.C., the contract to renovate the first 70,000 sf of a 480,000-sf Morrisville, N.C., manufacturing facility that Andrx acquired from Bristol-Myers Squibb in 2003. The $23-million first phase will create laboratory, warehouse, packaging, and administrative space. Slated for occupancy in early 2005, the plant will employ 400 workers when it reaches full operational status, nearly doubling Andrx’s manufacturing capacity.

Genentech has expanded with the lease of 141,348 sf of office space in an 11-story, 249,732-sf building in Boston Properties’ Gateway Commons in South San Francisco.  

St. Luke’s Hospital has completed the $3.1-million renovation of its Quakertown, Pa., emergency department. The new 11-room facility features a more private registration area and treatment rooms, a larger waiting room, an isolation room for patients with infectious diseases, special pediatric treatment rooms, and a hazardous materials room with a decontamination shower.

Cytec Corp, a developer and manufacturer of women’s medical diagnostic products, is relocating its headquarters from 100,000 sf in Boxborough to 216,000 sf in the former 3Com campus in Marlborough. Construction and improvements to the property will begin in summer of 2004 with occupancy slated for early 2005.

Bishop State Community College is planning a $10-million business and technology center on its Mobile, Ala., campus. Housing the college’s business, economics, adult education, and economic development divisions, the 50,000-sf facility will feature classrooms, 11 computer labs, videoconferencing capabilities, a satellite downlink, an amphitheater, a wireless technology equipped auditorium, a bell tower, and a three-deck parking garage. The project team is comprised of Mobile, Ala.-based firms Volkert & Associates as architect and Rod Cooke Construction as general contractor.