Industry News

Wilmington-based Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) is negotiating construction of an additional 70,000-sf facility at its Barclay Commons campus with developer Cameron. PPD, a contract research firm for pharmaceutical and biotech companies, has two existing buildings totaling 60,000-sf and 70,000-sf at the site.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will occupy between 25,000 sf and 50,000 sf of furnished and IT-ready space in its new headquarters facility in Pentagon City in January, 2003. By March 1, TSA will occupy a total of 150,000 sf. Eventually TSA will occupy 491,000 sf of the complex, which formerly housed WorldCom's MCI Network Services.  

Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana has awarded the Dallas office of RTKL the architectural design contract for the development of the Cardiovascular Center of Excellence. The new approximately 75,000-sf, $32-million addition will consolidate all cardiovascular, neurovascular, and peripheral vascular services in one state-of-the-art location. The project, which is already underway, is slated for completion in the fourth quarter of 2004.  

St. Luke's Hospital, an affiliate of Sutter Health System, is constructing a $6.4-million heart center featuring a cardiac catheterization lab. The center, which will also house equipment for non-invasive diagnostic procedures such as echocardiograms and stress tests, is expected to open in spring of 2003.

Better Choice Packaging, a packaging and display company serving companies including Hershey, Arm & Hammer, and Bath & Body Works, will relocate operations from a 26,000-sf Camden facility to a newly purchased 50,300-sf, $640,000 facility sited on four acres in Camden, N.J.