Industry News

Wyeth Ayerst Laboratories has a new $20 million, 50,000-sf facility for biological production and research in Marietta. The company is also building a manufacturing facility in Puerto Rico. The construction manager for both projects is Barclay White Inc. of Philadelphia.

De Lange Landen Financial Services, a subsidiary of Rabobank of the Netherlands, has completed construction on phase one of its new corporate headquarters in Wayne. The company, currently located in Berwyn, expects to finish the $35 million project in fall 2000.

Johnson Controls broke ground in December 1999 on a new six-building manufacturing campus on 64 acres at the Parque Industrial Colonial in Reynosa. San Antonio-based 3D/International will design and manage construction of the fast-track project, with the first phase--an 180,000-sf facility--scheduled for completion by mid-June 2000.

Construction of phase two will result in three buildings ranging from 150,000 sf to 180,000 sf. Phase three will include one or two more buildings. The anticipated completion for the entire project--encompassing approximately 1 million sf--is 2003.

USAA plans to build a new western operations center at a 575-acre site in northern Phoenix, with completion scheduled for late 2002. USAA provides insurance and financial services.

MCI Worldcom has received approval from the Newark City Council for a new regional Internet network information center. The fast-track project includes two 108,336-sf buildings for a total of 216,672 sf to be built by Buffalo Properties Inc. on 13.5 acres at Stevenson Point Tech Park. The new facility will support MCI Worldcom's fiber-optic data network.