Industry News

Sun Microsystems has signed a lease for 525,000 sf at Wilson/Equity Office's Foundry Square in San Francisco. The Palo Alto, Calif., computer manufacturing giant may lease an additional building at the Foundry site for a total of 3 buildings and 855,000 sf. Although space function has yet to be determined, such expansion could house up to 4,000 employees. Approval for a fourth building at the Foundry is pending for builder Wilson.

Deltagen Inc. is expanding its leased space by 45,000-sf. in Menlo Park, for a total of 95,000-sf. Adjacent to Deltagen's existing headquarters, the $7 million project will house scientists studying gene models.

Sybase, Inc. has contracted RMW Architecture & Design to design its new corporate headquarters in Dublin, Calif. Two six-story office buildings are planned. Contractor DPR Construction of Redwood City, Calif., is building the $50 million, 420,000-sf project, with additional tenant improvements, due to be completed in November of 2001.

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.