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Industry News
Discovery Builds Global Headquarters
Discovery Communications has plans to house 2,000 employees at a $150 million, 500,000-sf global headquarters to be built on four acres in Silver Spring. Gensler is the strategic planning/interior design architect for the project. The Smith Cos. will design the base building. The general contractor is Clark Construction.
Tivoli Plans New Campus in Austin
Tivoli Systems Inc. plans to consolidate its 2,000 employees currently located in 10 Austin offices at a new 90-acre corporate campus. Tivoli has awarded the contract for the project's master plan to the Houston office of Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK). At build-out, the campus will feature more than one million sf of office space.
Redevelopment at Fort Sam Houston
Fort Sam Houston's historic Brooke Army Medical Center and the Beach pavilion Complex will be redeveloped by the U.S. Army working in partnership with the Pennsylvania firm Roy F. Weston Inc. as prime contractor. Local firms involved in the project are Orion Partners, Cross & Company and Ford, Powell & Carson.
GTS Builds Data Center
Global TeleSystems (GTS) is building a 55,000-sf data center in Loudoun County to service Internet companies. Completion is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2000. Based in McLean, Va., GTS is the U.S. division of the British company.
Toshiba Expands in Manassas
Toshiba will partner with SanDisk of Silicon Valley to invest $700 million in an expansion at the Dominion Semiconductor plant in Manassas for a new company, Flash-Vision, that plans to manufacture a new memory chip there.