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Industry News
Avalon Pharmaceuticals Site Selection Under Way
Gaithersburg, Md.-based Avalon Pharmaceuticals is seeking a 44,000- to 55,000-sf Montgomery County facility to house its R&D and administrative departments. Programming and design has begun for the planned analytical and organic chemistry laboratories for drug discovery. The facility may be pre-existing or a building that can be retrofitted or built-out.
Environmental Defense Relocates to 'Green' Office Facility
Environmental Defense, a nonprofit headquartered in New York, has relocated its consolidated Washington staff to a 19,000-sf “green” office in Washington. The consolidation project team included Staubach, architects Envision Design and Rand Construction.
Inova Fairfax Hospital Breaks Ground on Heart Institute
Ground was broken on Inova Fairfax Hospital's new heart institute in earlly April. The $122-million, 280,000-sf Falls Church facility will be the first center devoted to treating cardiac disease in the Washington area. The four-story facility will be built by contractor Turner Construction and is slated for completion in spring of 2004. The 656-bed hospital will add an additional 156 beds, increase its cardiac operating room count from four to six, and gain additional electrophysiology and catheterization lab facilities.
Crawford Long Builds New State-of-the-Art Hospital
Crawford Long Hospital’s new $270-million hospital and headquarters features a new medical office tower and state-of-the-art facilities. Having received approval from the state two years ago to redevelop its aging campus, Crawford Long and Cousins Properties Inc. have partnered to build one of the largest hospital construction projects ever undertaken in Georgia. The six-story hospital will consolidate outpatient services from several buildings and will house an emergency department triple the size of current facilities. Physicians will be located directly above the patients they serve.
Siebel Systems Consolidates Atlanta Offices
Siebel Systems Inc. is consolidating two Atlanta offices with a move to a new office tower, the One Glenlake. Siebel provides commerce applications software enabling automation of sales and customer service operations for large companies. Siebel has committed to 60 percent of the building, leasing 195,000 sf of the available 353,000 sf in One Glenlake. The tower is the first of three office buildings in a development totalling 1 million sf. Construction began on One Glenlake on Nov. 1 of 2001 and is slated for completion in January of 2003.