Industry News

Delaware-based multinational DuPont is consolidating its seven Richmond-area warehouse and logistics centers into a new 800,000-sf two-building complex. The $30 million Chesterfield county relocation will is near DuPont's Spruance manufacturing plant.

Construction has begun on a new 750,000-sf headquarters for Chevy Chase Bank.  The building will feature two 15-story towers on a four-story base,  the 4,000-seat Roundhouse Theater and a 40,000-sf public plaza. Approximately 250,000 sf in the East Tower will be leased to corporate and retail tenants. Brennan Beer Gorman Monk/Architects & Interiors of Washington designed the building.

Frederick, Md.-based Bio-Tech Imaging, a developer and manufacturer of HIV tests, recently opened a 30,000-sf manufacturing plant in Shreveport, La. As Bio-Tech expands its manufacturing scope to include diagnostic tests for cancer and hepatitis C, sites for two new production facilities will be sought in the greater Washington area.

PharmaNet is tripling the size of its operations in Cary, North Carolina. The Princeton, N.J.-based contract research organization provides the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries with a comprehensive range of drug development and consulting services. Slated for September, the expansion of the Cary office will increase square footage from 6,600 to 19,000 and consolidate space on two floors of the Weston One to a larger facility on a single floor.

Harvard Medical School has completed a phased renovation of facilities for the Department of Cell Biology. Architectural Resources Cambridge, based in Cambridge, Mass., planned the project which includes biological research labs and facilities for video microscopy, micro-injection, tissue culture, and histology, as well as a frog research facility and high purity water treatment system. A frog breeding colony is accommodated in a new skylighted penthouse.