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Industry News
Trellis Photonics Plans Manufacturing Facility
Trellis Photonics, based in Israel, has plans for a 60,000-sf manufacturing facility at the Columbia Gateway Business Park. The $18 million building will accommodate the fiber-optics firm's research, administration, and manufacturing operations. The company's $25 million, five-year growth plan includes a staff increase from the present 150 employees to 350.
New Telecom Center Opens in Atlanta
The Atlanta Telecom Center, a multimillion-dollar project of Montreal-based Yale GSG Lee Real Estate Ltd., has opened in Atlanta's West End. Yale Provided site selection, financing, design, and engineering to convert the former Alterman Foods Inc. warehouse to a telecom hotel. Upgrades include a new roof, multiple fiber entrances to the structure, and distribution throughout the building of that fiber. Nearby fiber-optic trunk lines have attracted telecommunications companies to the area.
Meredith College Builds Collaborative Science Building
Meredith College has a new $20-million, 80,000-sf collaborative science building under construction. Designed by BJLAS Architecture and built by Rogers Builders of Charlotte, N.C., the facility will promote interaction by bringing together the various science subspecialties, rather than isolating them by floor. The most expensive lab space—that used by the departments of chemistry and biology—will be grouped together. Four to six students will work together at lab ‘islands’. Small group study alcoves will be located throughout the structure.
EOS Relocates and Expands San Francisco Operations
EOS, a private genomic research company, will relocate from its 31,000-sf space in South San Francisco, to a 82,000-sf building at Slough Estates USA’s $250-million development at Oyster Point. Construction of the facility is scheduled to begin in summer 2001.
Exodus Communications Data Center Under Construction
Exodus Communications has a new 650,000-sf data center under construction at the Ashburn Corporate Center, a 120-acre development by Du Pont Fabres north of Dulles International Airport. Completion of the Exodus data center is anticipated in summer 2001. Phase two of the project will provide a 300,000-sf building when completed in spring 2002. Donnally Lederer, Vujcic arcitects, based in Gaithersburg, Md., designed the building and the campus' master plan for Exodus.