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The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center plans to build the 129,100-sf Education Building to provide interdisciplinary learning for health care professionals. The facility will integrate research knowledge, flexibility in teaching environment and technology, and state-of-the-art equipment and training. Cost for planning, design and construction of the Education building is estimated at $40-million.

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HCS) is soliciting programming and architectural/engineering proposals for the Cancer Research and Treatment Center. Current plans for the potentially 180,000-sf facility, the second phase of the 80,000-sf Cancer Research Facility built in 1997, include two floors of wet lab research as well as facilities for patient holding, outpatient diagnosis and treatment, Chemotherapy, Radiation Oncology, clinical trials, dry lab research, administration, medical offices, patient education, and comm

Responding to current and future outpatients demands, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center will develop the Ambulatory Surgery and Imaging Center, a 36,000-sf facility with a single shared infrastructure for the two departments including recovery space, waiting room and reception area. Relieving pressure on existing surgical and imaging facilities, the Ambulatory Surgery and Imaging Center will house six operating rooms; 24 prep/recovery bays; CAT Scan; MRI; Mammography; Ultrasound; the Pain Clinic; and office and support space.

San Diego State University is planning the Paseo, a mixed-use redevelopment of the campus's southeastern corner. Comprised of street-level retail and upper-floor offices and student/faculty housing, the project will include nine acres of underground parking and a light rail station already under construction. The project is part of the city of San Diego's "City of Villages" concept, which will feature retail and higher-density housing developments that are both pedestrian friendly and transit-oriented.

Catholic University of America is building the $26.5 million Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center, a three-story, 102,000-sf, T-shaped structure dubbed the “living room of the university." Housing a bookstore, student center, ballroom, six meeting rooms, campus offices, and a convenience store, the facility is being built by Clark Construction of Bethesda, Md. Construction began in October 2001 and is slated for completion in January 2003. The center will unite the existing three dining rooms on campus into one facility.