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Internet software maker Neoteris is relocating its headquarters from Mountain View to Sunnyvale, Calif. The new 44,702-sf facility triples Neoteris’ office space and expands available lab space for research and product development.

Online lender E-Loan will consolidate its 750-employee work force in 118,000-sf of the Pleasanton Corporate Commons in Pleasanton, Calif. E-Loan has an option to lease an additional 90,000-sf in the building where it will occupy four floors. The facility was one of three built for Charles Schwab Corp.

Brisbane, Calif.-based VaxGen has opened an $11-million facility in South San Francisco that will manufacture the company’s anthrax vaccine, AIDS vaccine, and products ranging from smallpox vaccine to monoclonal antibodies. The 17,000-sf facility is adjacent to the company’s research and development operations, and features stainless steel bioprocessors and purifiers. The facility can be easily reconfigured as manufacturing requirements change as much of the equipment is on wheels.

Zone Labs has more than doubled its space in San Francisco with a move to 70,000 sf at 475 Brannan Street. Zone will consolidate its San Francisco operations at the new location while continuing to occupy its Sunnyvale office. The 225,000-sf 475 Brannan facility contains the city’s only private biotech space and houses two 15,000-sf wet labs. The building previously housed the headquarters of Signature Bioscience.  

Titan, a San Diego-based defense contractor, has selected Hitt Contracting to build out its 280,000-sf lease at Two Freedom Square in Reston, Va. Designed by architect DBI, the project will begin construction at the end of the third quarter of 2003. Occupancy is slated for early 2004.