Industry News

Sun Microsystems has plans for a new six-building office campus at the Dublin Transit Center. Sun purchased 12 acres from Alameda County for its 750,000-sf complex, which will include the buildings, parking structures, and groundfloor retail.

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.

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 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, 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.