Industry News

The Scotts Co., headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, has selected three San Diego companies to provide design, construction management, and general contracting services for a new facility in Temecula. Smith Consulting Architects, Gafcon, and Keeton Construction Co. began work in November 2000 on Scotts Co.'s $22 million, 410,000-sf office/manufacturing/warehouse facility to produce lawn seed and fertilizer spreaders. The company is a leading supplier of consumer gardening products.

Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. plans to relocate its Siemens Enterprise Networks Inc. division from Santa Clara, Calif., to the Skyport development under construction at San Jose International Airport. Siemens will move 1,200 employees in fall 2001 into two of three buildings being developed by Spieker Properties Inc. The two towers, providing a total of 370,000 sf, will house Siemen's global development headquarters for voice, data, and Internet applications.

Brocade Communication Systems is expanding operations at the Skyport development at San Jose International Airport. The company, which provides storage area networking infrastructure, will occupy an entire eight-story, 195,000-sf office tower currently under construction. The Brocade building is one of three that Spieker Properties Inc. is developing at the site. A second phase of construction, scheduled to start in two to three years, will include an additional three buildings, for a total of 1.1 million sf of office space.

Cohu Inc. plans to relocate its plant and headquarters from Kearny Mesa, Calif., to a 20-acre site in Poway in 2001. The new $21.3 million, 338,00-sf facility will consolidate the operations of Cohu's manufacturing subsidiary, Delta Design, under one roof, and also accommodate administrative offices, and approximately 900 employees. Cohu manufactures test equipment used in the manufacture of semiconductors.

Cisco Systems, based in San Jose, Calif., recently began construction at its nine-building campus on three 200,000-sf buildings: buildings 10, 11, and 12. These buildings were designed by O'Brien/Atkins Associates of Durham, N.C. Bovis/Lend Lease, based in Raleigh, N.C., is the general contractor. Completion is planned for 2001, when construction will begin on three more buildings--buildings 13, 14, and 15--which will total 500,000 sf. Cisco currently houses 3,000 employees at the site.