Industry News

Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) is planning to build a 7,500-sf aviation maintenance training center on land adjacent to its 60,000-sf Middle Georgia Regional Airport maintenance headquarters in Macon. The training center will feature a 3,000-sf equipment and parts storage facility, office space, three classrooms, and general support space. ASA, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, expects to begin construction this summer.

Northrop Grumman, based in Los Angeles, is expanding its operations in Maryland near the Baltimore/Washington International Airport. A new 100,000-sf facility will be built to consolidate its regional operations and to provide swing space while the company makes final expansion plans--possibly as much as 15,000 sf--for northern Rockville.

The General Services Administration is developing plans for the Southeast Federal Center, a 3 million-sf office, retail, residential and cultural complex. The GSA has issued a request for qualifications outlining criteria for selecting the development team for the project. The U.S. Department of Transportation became the anchor tenant when it decided in July to locate its 1.7 million-sf headquarters, which employs 7,000 workers, on 11 of the Center's 55 acres.

Biotech test equipment startup Guava Technologies is moving from 10,000 sf in Burlingame, Calif., to 40,000-sf in Hayward, Calif.

The University of Maryland has selected D.C. architectural firm OP-X to design an addition to its Inn & Conference Center in Adelphi, Md., compliant with the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) program coordinated by the U.S. Green Building Council. Slated to begin construction in late spring of 2002 and reach completion in 2003, the 102,000-sf addition includes 6,000 sf of meeting space and 126 hotel rooms. Construction manager for the project is Bovis Lend Lease.