Industry News

Trinity College has completed a $20 million renovation of its athletic facility including the Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sport, a NCAA regulation playing field, and a 1,600-seat basketball arena. Trinity's athletic complex will be considered as a practice facility for the proposed Washington 2012 Olympics. Trinity College is a women's university with an enrollment of 1,500 students.

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.

Chevron Corp. is relocating its corporate headquarters to the company's San Ramon campus. Chevron will move the remaining 200 San Francisco employees to Chevron's large corporate home in San Ramon, which currently houses 3,500 workers.