Industry News

McKesson HBOC Inc. has moved to secure a maximum of available space at the new Station Oaks complex in Pleasant Hill, Calif. The San Francisco pharmaceutical  giant could acquire the entire 195,000-sf facility near the Pleasant Hill Bart station. Station Oaks has just commenced construction.

Software company Tivoli Systems Inc. broke ground on their new north Austin campus in November. The new facilities may grow to as much as 1 million-sf of space.

The State of California Department of General Services is working with Pleasanton, Calif.-based Neilsen Dillingham Builders to construct phases I & II of its new Richmond Laboratory Dept. of Health Services. The $115.2 million, 482,000-sf project includes a custom 326,000-sf, seven-building investigation facility, and a multi-building 156,000-sf research and testing facility. Begun in August, 1998, completion is anticipated by project manager NBBJ in November of 2001.

Providence Hospital's new Goffredi Operating Suite opened in May in Northeast D.C.  The $10 million, 45,000-sf state-of-the-art building will house a 37 bed pre- and post-operative recovery space, 8 operating suites and centralized supply storage in a "sterile core".  Replacing the existing 24,000-sf OR facility, the Goffredi building will include technological features such as the Aesop and Hermes robotic surgery systems, as well as articulating arms for additional surgical lighting. 

A new Conservatory of Music in Puerto Rico is being designed by Boston firm Domenech Hicks and Krockmalnic Architects. New administrative, academic, and performance facilities, as well as a 300-car parking garage, will be included in the $50 million rehabilitation of a historic building.