Industry News

Stanford University's Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering and Science, currently under construction, is slated for completion in summer of 2003. The multi-disciplinary 225,000-sf facility will bring researchers from a variety of different fields together. There are no walls inside the building. Work spaces are adjustable, with wheeled benches, shared fume hoods, and electrical outlets and ventilation ducts available every ten feet.

Westmont   College of Santa Barbara is seeking San Francisco Planning Commission approval to create a college dormitory in San Francisco’s 6,300-sf Victorian Inn on the Park. The 18-room former inn would be converted to a 30-bed dorm for Westmont’s urban studies program.   

Network storage firm Sun Microsystems has awarded Cushman & Wakefield a three-year multimillion-dollar contract to provide facilities and cost management services for its 220 nationwide properties. Effective October 1, the contract comprises 11.2 million sf and will be serviced from San Francisco. Cushman, retained to save on expenses and provide tech upgrades to the campuses, will hire over 200 employees to handle the account. Services provided by Cushman include accounting, administration, call center management, energy management, engineering, and health and safety issues.

Cendant Mortgage is building a 175,000-sf office building in the Bishops Gate Business Center in Mount Laurel, N.J.  Developed by Liberty Property Trust of Malvern,N.J., the facility is Cendant's third building in Bishops Gate and will accommodate 1,200 mortgage processing employees. The relocation is part of Cendant's overall plan for expansion. The building is slated for completion in January.

The Wake Forest University School of Medicine is planning to expand its Piedmont Triad Research Park by 180 acres. The expansion would increase the four-building, 600-worker park to ten times its current size.