Industry News

Tiffany & Co. of Cranston, R.I., have selected Integrated Builders of Braintree to renovate and retrofit approximately 30,000 sf of existing industrial space as a precious metal processing facility. SMRT of Portland is serving as architect and engineer for the $2.7-million project.

The University of the Pacific School of Dentistry is planning to develop the $15-million Molinari Project, an addition to the western side of the school’s San Francisco campus. The 60,000-sf expansion will house a clinical research center, new simulation and clinical facilities, a professional development center, student housing, and several stories of underground parking.

Centocor is planning to construct a new headquarters facility in Spring House, Pa., doubling the capacity of the Malvern site that the company will vacate. Occupancy is slated for the fourth quarter of 2005, with construction reaching completion by the end of 2006. Centocor will also relocate a majority of its operations from locations in Malvern, Radnor, and Trediffryn to 200,000-sf at the Commonwealth Corporate Center Horsham. The space will accommodate between 700 and 800 employees and will be renovated prior to the relocation.

The California Academy of Sciences will lease 204,000 sf south of Market Street in San Francisco as a temporary home while eleven of the organization’s twelve buildings in Golden Gate Park are razed and a new 400,000-sf facility is built. The temporary location will open to the public in January 2004. The 204,000-sf facility will include a 32,000-sf lower level garage that will accommodate tanks and equipment for the ground-floor aquarium.  

Construction has begun on the new Bindley Bioscience Center, a research building at Purdue University for their campus in West Lafayette, Indiana. The biosciences and engineering facility is one of five centers planned for a new $100-million Discovery Park addition to the West Lafayette campus.