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Industry News
Discovery Communications Headquarters in Silver Spring
Discovery Communications has plans for a new 500,000-sf worldwide headquarters in Silver Spring scheduled to break ground in fall 2000. The structure will consolidate operations currently spread out in six Bethesda, Md., buildings, and will house approximately 2,000 employees when completed in fall 2002. Discovery Communications is the owner of the Discovery Channel.
NBC Internet's New Headquarters
NBC Internet Inc. (NBCi) will renovate the 80-year-old Standard Oil building for its new headquarters in San Francisco's financial district. The SmithGroup's information-age design features natural sunlight, quickly-reconfigurable mobile furniture, European cooling system, recycled car-tire flooring, translucent, wired cubicle partitions, exposed piping and wiring, operable windows, and a game room. NBCi will move in by year-end to 240,000 sf in the building, occupying 11 floors of the structure.
PNC Completes New Center
PNC Financial Services Group has completed the 161,000-sf second phase of construction at its new operations site, PNC Eastwick Center. The first 280,000-sf phase of construction was completed in January 1998.The compnay will relocate 600 employees from various offices to the new building. A total of 1,500 employees will work at the center.
SAP Expands North American Headquarters
SAP America Inc., in the midst of a $100 million, two-building construction project to serve as its North American headquarters, has purchased an additional 150 acres surrounding the campus. The software manufacturer completed its first three-story, 450,000-sf building in summer 1999, which houses approximately 1,000 employees. A start date for the second building has not yet been set, and it is uncertain how acquisition of the acreage will affect building plans.
Quintiles Transnational Office Consolidation
Quintiles Transnational is building a new $3.4 million, 103,000-sf facility, Bradford Place, to consolidate its ten Research Triangle Park offices in one location. Construction began in July 1999 and is scheduled for completion in June 2000. Architects for the project are WGM Design Inc., based in Charlotte, N.C., and Bell/Knott Associates, based in Kansas City, Kan. The general contractor is the Raleigh, N.C., office of Shelco Inc., headquartered in Charlotte.