Industry News

Network Associates is building a new 170,000-sf office building on a 15-acre parcel at Legacy Corporate Park in Plano. Carr Development, an affiliate of Carr America Realty based in Washington, D.C., will develop the three-story building for the network security company. Architect for the project is Good Fulton Farrell, with interior design by Gensler & Associates. Completion of construction is expected at the end of 2002.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plans to move 800 employees into a new five-story building under construction at the Renaissance Corporate Center, a 250-acre office park in Gulph Mills. Liberty Property Trust is building the $40-million, 200,000-sf build-to-suit, which is located across the street from the company’s other research and office operations. GSK is also considering expansion at its Upper Merion, Penn., location.

U.S. Dataport, based in San Jose, Calif., has abandoned plans to build a 3,750,000-sf, $1.4-billion data center in Gainesville in favor of a general high-tech business park housing office and light manufacturing space for products such as telecom gear or computer chips. The 192-acre site will also provide 400,000 sf of data center space, a $300 million independent power plant, and a Virginia Railway Express station for transporting the potential 3,000 workers to the business park.

Media and Technology Charter High School (MATCH) selected HMFH Architects Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., to design its new Boston campus--a 20,000-sf building. The general contractor for the project is A.J. Martini Inc.

Vitasoy USA Inc. is closing its offices in South San Francisco and moving its corporate headquarters to a 180,000-sf facility on 12 acres owned by Vitasoy in Ayer, Mass. Vitasoy makes tofu and soy products. The company is a subsidiary owned by Vitasoy International Holdings Ltd. of Hong Kong.