Industry News

Aero Plastics, maker of plastic storage products, will open its new 455,000-sf manufacturing facility in McDonough, Ga., in November. Located in Henry County's Greenwood Industrial Park, the facility was selected partially due to proximity to one of Aero's prime customers, The Home Depot Inc.

Siena College's Morrell Science Center recently won a First Place Technology Award in the category of Institutional Buildings in a regional competition organized by the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Located in Loudonville, New York, the new 53,000-sf center houses a total of 46 teaching laboratories for physics, biology and chemistry, as well as offices, recitation and faculty rooms.

Provo, Utah-based Novell is consolidating with a move to 105,000 sf in Hobbs Brook Office Park in Waltham. Consolidating Cambridge and Billerica facilities from its July acquisition of SilverStream Software, the Waltham lease includes occupancy of the building's top floor and one lower floor for at least five years.

Cambridge-based Biogen is investing $45-million in a second purification suite at its Research Triangle Park campus. The suite is slated for completion in mid-2003. The biotech firm is also planning to complete an 800-car parking deck, with a construction cost of $8- to $9-million, by year-end.

Drexel University's LeBow School of Business has completed the 40,000-sf Pearlstein Business Learning Center. The facility includes centers for e-commerce management and executive education, as well as simulated boardrooms with videoconferencing capabilities. The addition was designed by Philip Johnson in conjunction with New York-based Alan Ritchie Architects and Philadelphia's Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associates.