Industry News

Mayville Metal Products, based in Creedmor, N.C., is seeking an Austin site to build a 80,000-sf integration center, including a 10,000-sf cleanroom, for the semiconductor industry. Mayville will integrate the 300mm (12-inch) wafer at the new site. The company will close its 30,000-sf logistics center in southeast Austin.

The Yamacraw Design Center, the facility that will house Georgia's initiative for technology economic development in broadband telecommunications, is being developed in Midtown Atlanta. The building will include institutional and commercial design technology demonstration studios; prototypes of labs for applied R&D; and incubator and industry representative office space for member companies. Lord, Aeck & Sargent of Atlanta is the architect for the project.

CyberPlex @ Dulles, a new $72 million, 400,000-sf data center, is expected to break ground in April 2001 on a 29-acre site in Loudoun County. Completion of the project is anticipated by late fall. The developer is DataCentersNow, a subsidiary of Beco Management based in Rockville, Md. The company has already built one facility in Sterling -- the 55,000-sf CyberFortress I -- and is building CyberFortress II, a 110,000-sf data center, in Manassas, Va.

J. David Gladstone Institutes, a nonprofit medical research center based in San Francisco, plans to expand at Mission Bay with a 180,000-sf biotech research park. The Institutes, whose operations are currently scattered in offices and labs at the campus of the University of California San Francisco, plans to increase its staff of researchers from 260 to 520 by the end of 2010. The new facility will cost $100 million, including the cost of the approximately five-acre site the Institutes plans to purchase. NBBJ Architects is designing the building.

Solid Data Systems plans to relocate from its 30,000-sf facility in Santa Clara, Calif., to a new 67,500-sf building at Piercy business Park in South San Jose's Edenvale section. The planned expansion anticipates Solid Data's plan to quadruple its staff to 400 employees over the next two years. Construction began in December 2000, with move-in planned for May 2001. A second 67,500-sf building is scheduled for 2002. Mission West Properties is the developer of the buildings. Solid Data Systems manufactures Internet infrastructure hardware.