Industry News

Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport is building a new $4.4-million Airport Technical Support Campus facility. The 55,000-sf office will house 250 employees and will accommodate personnel (project management teams, contractors, subcontractors) involved in construction projects for the airport such as the planned fifth runway. The single story structure can be expanded to 94,000-sf. Completion is anticipated in July 2001.

Sun Microsystems intends to purchase 11.8 acres in Dublin, Calif., for development of a new campus. The proposal submitted to Alameda county includes a bid of $43 million for the county's remaining surplus land, providing up to 750,000 sf of office space for as many as 3,000 employees.

Lexigen Pharmaceuticals has scheduled the first phase of a new research campus in Billerica, Bedford and Burlington to be completed by spring of 2002. The 46-acre site will be developed by construction managers Linbeck/Kennedy & Rossi of Lexington, Mass.

Immunex Corporation broke ground in January 2001 on the Helix Project—a new $750-million research and technology center—on a 29-acre parcel of undeveloped industrial land in Seattle. The facility will consolidate Immunex’s Seattle employees and will accommodate approximately 1,700 employees. Phase I of the center totals 1.1 million gsf and is scheduled for completion in fall/winter 2003.

Trevecca Nazarene University expected to dedicate its new $10.5 million Waggoner Library and Center for Instructional Technology in November 2000. The three-story, 61,489-sf facility was designed by Earl Swensson Associates (ESa) of Nashville. ESa also served as interior designer for the library. The periodicals and rotunda areas, which serve as the building's main gathering space, are also designed to accommodate hosted receptions. The grand reading room housing stacks and tables is bathed in natural light.