Industry News

Transkaryotic Therapies Inc. is building a 185,000-sf headquarters and state-of-the-art laboratory and research facility in an MIT-owned building in Cambridge. The $65 million project, developed by Barr & Barr Inc., involves renovating the existing building, including restoration of the historical building's 150-year-old facade.

Harvard University is building an apartment style, 360-bed graduate student housing facility in Allston, Mass. The $85 million project, developed by Bond Bros. Inc., features a 15-story tower.

McCarthy Building Companies Inc. has completed the first phase of construction on the Columbia River Maritime Museum, the first nationally accredited maritime museum in the Northwest. Located in Astoria, Ore., the museum remained open during the 11-month construction project targeted for completion in October 2001. Phase I involved a 2,500-sf expansion and a 15,000-sf renovation providing space for an updated library, a state-of-the-art archive facility and new office space.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute's 72,000-sf campus center was completed by Cutler Associates, a design-build firm based in Worcester. Boston-based Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson and Abbott designed the project.

The University of Pennsylvania is planning to build a new three to five-story, 1,000-student dorm in addition to renovation of 12 existing dorms. The $250 million project, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox of New York, involves internal restructuring of the residential high rises, creating more social and common space. Stouffler Triangle, an existing dorm and dining building, will be demolished by 2001 as a site for a new dining facility.