Industry News

Britannia Corporate Center, a six-building, 296,400-sf distribution/manufacturing project being developed by Master Development Corporation, will be designed by Ware & Malcomb Architects of San Diego. The project site encompasses 15.9 acres in South San Diego County. The buildings will range in size from 25,000 to 84,000 sf.

American Nevada Corp. is working with general contractor McCarthy's Las Vegas office for the construction of two office buildings on 8 acres at the company's Green Valley Corporate Center. Tilt-up construction is being used for the $4.3 million project to complete the buildings by April 2001. The 45,000-sf structures will feature finished lobbies, high performace reflective glass, and aluminum clad exterior balconies. McCarthy is also constructing surface parking at the site. The project architect is Howard F. Thompson Architects of Irvine, Calif.

WorldCom has completed Phase II construction at its two-story switch facility in Charlton, providing an additional 24,000 sf of technical space. The work was carried out by Boston-based Tishman Construction Corp. of Massachusetts; design/build services were performed by its affiliate, Tishman Technologies Corp.

Boston Internet City, a 450,000-sf telecommunications facility in Brighton, is nearing completion. Occupancy of the $55 million project is expected by summer, with tenant improvements starting as early as mid-February. Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, based in Boston, is developing the project.

Teraspace Networks has plans to provide co-location space for major voice and data carriers with a 500,000-sf data center in Austin that Teraspace will help finance, build and operate. The Austin data center will be one of seven $20 million facilities the company plans to develop. Construction is already under way on a 1.1 million-sf data facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to be followed in late 2001 by one in Austin and one in Houston. No dates have yet been set for centers in Phoenix and Denver.