Industry News

Overland Data Inc. broke ground in March 2001 at the San Diego Spectrum development for a new 158,000-sf building to accommodate production, engineering, operations, marketing and sales for the company. Completion is anticipated in spring 2002. Overland Data manufactures automated tape backup equipment for computer systems.

Pacific Bell, a subsidiary of Texas-based SBC, has opened a new $50 million, 135,000-sf data center in Irvine. The facility is designed to provide data services, such as Web hosting, collocation, IT infrastructure protection, and improved systems reliability to businesses who want to outsource those functions. SBC established a data center in Dallas recently, and is considering sites in northern California for a similar facility.

Medarex Inc., based in Princeton, Pa., has opened a new center for antibody development in Greenwich. The center features labs for research and development, a pilot plant, and facilities for future manufactuiring. Several phases of expansion are planned over the next two years, with construction completed in late 2002. At build-out, the facility will accommodate 200 employees. The expansion will support the company's R&D in the field of cancer and arthritis treatments, as well as provide for future large-scale manufacturing of monoclonal antibodies.

Sybase Inc., currently based in Emeryville, Calif., completed construction in May at its new corporate headquarters in Dublin. The 500,000-sf structure will accommodate 1,200 to 1,400 employees by the end of 2001. DPR Construction Inc. is the contractor.

Cisco Systems, based in San Jose, Calif., is preparing to go through the design review process for its planned five-building high-tech campus in Dublin. Economic factors, which had caused the company to reassess its plans in March, apparently will not halt the project. Opus West Corp. is the builder for 220,000 sf in two of the structures, the first of which is scheduled for completion in September 001, the second in early 2002.