Industry News

United Parcel Service  (UPS) is searching for a new site for Fritz, its new commodity trading division which provides logistics support and freight service support worldwide. Currently located in 180,000-sf of warehouse and office space in the Southridge industrial park in Atlanta, Fritz must relocate due to airport expansion. UPS is searching for a 100,000-sf to 125,000-sf industrial facility in the same general area as its current location to facilitate airport and interstate freeway access.

Raleigh Community Hospital has awarded a $140,000 contract to Commercial Mechanical Inc. to install a web-based heating and cooling system.

The Environmental Protection Agency's new 1.2 million-sf campus will be ready for occupancy in summer 2002. The largest facility ever built for the EPA, the campus can house 2,200 employees and 10,000 research animals, and will include 400 individual labs, a cafeteria, a conference center and a child-care center.  The National Computer Center, which contains the agency's nationwide data, has already moved to the new headquarters.

The 444,000-sf Boston Tech Center is being retrofitted as a lab building by Cabot, Cabot & Forbes of New England. Originally designed as a telecommunications hotel, the facility will finish construction as a shell biomedical building and is projected to become a hub for lab companies. The three-story building will house two levels of ground-floor parking to accommodate 650 vehicles. A 40,000-sf glass atrium will be located on the second and third floors.

The National Weather Service's parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  (NOAA) is seeking a 200,000-sf build-to-suit office site and a developer to replace the weather service's offices at the older 126.500-sf World Weather Building in Camp Springs, Prince George's County. According to the General Services Administration, likely locations include College Park or Greenbelt, Md.