Industry News

Landmark Medical Center’s new 5,215-sf cardiac catheterization lab has been completed by Columbia Construction Co. of North Reading, Pa.  The project was conceived and developed in partnership with Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Perrier Group of America will consolidate its San Francisco operations with the development of a new 10,000-sf office building and a 16,000-sf distribution center. Formerly home to an industrial gas supplier, the three-acre site will also provide warehousing and parking for Perrier’s truck fleet.

Ireland-based biotech firm Elan is investing $20.2-million in the expansion and redevelopment of its four-building neurology research campus in South San Francisco. The project includes construction of a $13-million lab complex in a newly leased 66,000-sf facility. Elan will also complete the renovation of an existing 44,000-sf lab within the next three months. The expansion will concentrate Elan’s 180 Bay Area researchers in a single campus, as well as provide space for 70 additional researchers.

The Law School Admissions Council (LSAT) will break ground on its new 85,000-sf headquarters in late summer of 2002. Located on seven company-owned acres in Newton, Penn., adjacent to its current 48,000-sf operations, the facility will feature 54 underground parking spaces. The majority of a proposed $20-million bond will fund the headquarters, which will be designed by Edison, N.J.-based architectural firm Rothe Johnson Fantacone. Construction will be completed within a year.

LexisNexis Group, the legal and information division of Reed Elsevier PLC, has completed renovation of its 38,000-sf Boston headquarters. Construction management and general contracting for the renovation was provided by Spaulding & Slye Construction, a division of Boston-based real estate firm Spaulding & Slye Colliers. Architectural firm Gensler of San Francisco designed the project.