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Raleigh Community Hospital is constructing a new 21,000-sf cancer center. The $7.2-million facility will house the radiation therapy center, conference facilities, and medical education space. The hospital also began work on a $21.3 million cardiac center in September 2003. Both facilities are expected to reach completion in spring of 2004.

Sutter Health is working with affiliate Palo Alto Medical Foundation to build a 275,000-sf facility for Camino Medical Group in Mountain View, Calif. Sited on nine acres, the facility will house physician offices, a diagnostic center, outpatient operating rooms, a laboratory, a pharmacy, and an urgent-care center.

The Strategic Partnership for Research in Nanotechnology has been granted $10 million in funding from the Senate to establish a network of nanotechnology research centers. The Strategic Partnership for Research in Nanotechnology is a consortium comprised of The University of Texas at Dallas, The University of Texas at Arlington, The University of Texas at Austin, and Rice University.

The Buffalo Federal Court is planning to construct a new $100-million courthouse in Buffalo, N.Y. Designed by Kohn Pederson Fox of New York, the ten story, 262,000-sf facility will begin construction in 2004 and reach completion in late 2006 or early 2007.

Harvard Medical School (HMS) has completed the New Research Building (NRB) at its Cambridge, Mass., campus. Designed by ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, the 525,000-sf building is the largest expansion of the medical campus in nearly a century. The NRB houses approximately 800 researchers and staff from various disciplines that will work to pursue treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and other diseases.