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.

San Francisco State University is expanding in the East Bay, leasing 29,676-sf for its Oakland Multimedia Center. The facility will host multimedia training classes in the evenings and will serve as a conference center by day.

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD), has selected Gilbane Building Co. as construction manager/general contractor for a new $60-million research facility for the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology called Cal-(IT)²—a partnership between UCSD and the University of California, Irvine. The 215,000-sf facility will consist of research neighborhoods, specialized labs, and administrative offices.

Amherst College has selected Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott of Boston to design two new freshman dormitories on the College campus. The new dorms will be sited where the existing James and Stearns residential halls are located. The College has also assigned the company the conversion of its Pratt Geology Museum to a residence hall.

The City of Antioch has granted Kaiser Permanente approval to develop a new 6-building medical office campus in the summer of 2002. The facility is scheduled for completion in September 2003. The 78-acre complex could accommodate a hospital which, if approved, could begin construction in 2006. The campus will feature a $30 million, 60,500-sf medical outpatient center housing facilities for a staff of 300 and 38 physicians. Kaiser's existing building in Antioch is an outpatient medical office totalling 120,000 sf.