Industry News

The Brigham and Women's Hospital is planning a $175 million, 350,000-sf ambulatory care facility--the Center for Advanced Medicine--in Boston slated for completion in spring of 2005. The 10-story building will house clinical and administrative space, providing state-of-the-art care and specialty services to adult outpatients. Included in the project is a 300-car below-grade parking facility.

The Computer History Museum is planning a 41,000-sf facility near Mountain View in the NASA Research Park, a shared-used R&D campus proposed for Moffett Federal Airfield. Housing a large collection of computing artifacts, the Museum would open a temporary "Beta Building" in summer of 2002 with completion of the permanent facility slated for 2005.

Eisai Inc. has added 24,148 sf to its 85,000 sf of manufacturing facilities in Research Triangle Park, providing space for research labs, offices, manufacturing, packing, locker rooms, a cafeteria and 130 parking spaces. The development also includes raw materials storage in an off-site warehouse. Eisai is the U.S. Pharmaceutical division of Esai Co. Ltd. of Japan and manufactures Aricept and Aciphex. Esai currently employs 130 people at the RTP facility.

In the last year Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines and Pediatrics (a division of Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories) has completed construction of a 115,000-sf manufacturing facility for new vaccine components, as well as new production, warehousing, administrative and central utilities buildings.

CryoLife Inc. has completed the build-out of its 7,500-sf facility for the manufacture of BioGlue, a surgical adhesive being commercially rolled out in domestic and overseas markets. The manufacturing facility is located at CryoLife's headquarters and labs in suburban Atlanta.