Industry News

Scott & White, a Temple, Texas-based healthcare company, is planning the 77,000-sf Scott & White Center for Diagnostic and Specialty Care in Round Rock. The $27-million center will house 31 physicians specializing in gastroenterology, cardiology, orthopedics, ophthalmology, and general surgery. Construction is slated to begin in June of 2003 and reach completion in late 2004.

The University of Texas at San Antonio has leased 8,000 sf in Brooks Building 175 at Brooks Air Force Base to house a vaccine research training facility. Preparing molecular biologists, fermentation technicians, and genetic engineers to conduct vaccine-related research, the facility is slated to open by fall of 2003. The training center will accommodate both UTSA and military graduate and undergraduate students. City officials hope that the training facility will cause San Antonio to be chosen as the site of a proposed $1.5-billion national vaccine center.

UCB Pharma, a developer and commercializer of allergy/asthma medications and central nervous system disorder treatments, will occupy a new 110,000-sf, $15-million facility in early 2003. UCB Pharma currently employs 450 workers.

Randolph Brooks Federal Credit Union recently broke ground on its new Administrative Service Center in Live Oak, Texas. The 112,000-sf facility will house 350 employees, consolidating administrative personnel from six separate locations. The project is being designed by local architectural firm Chesney-Morales Associates and built by Metropolitan Contracting Co. Slated for completion by fall of 2003, the center will house all back-office operations including marketing, security, call centers, and loss prevention.

Suffolk University is building a new dormitory in Boston's urban Beacon Hill area. Designed by Cannon Design, the facility will be constructed on an 8,700-sf former parking lot and will stand 19 stories above ground with two stories below ground. The west side of the structure will feature a glass curtainwall.