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Fluor Corp. Constructs Las Colinas Headquarters
Fluor Corp. has selected Dallas-based Koll Development Co. to construct its new 120,000-sf international headquarters in Las Colinas, Texas. Sited on 26 acres, the facility will accommodate operations relocated from Orange County, Calif. The new headquarters will also feature an auditorium, a fitness center, and a cafeteria. The project will break ground in July 2005 with completion slated for early 2006.
Monsanto Constructs Creve Coeur Data Center
St. Louis-based Monsanto Co . is planning to construct a $21-million data center at its Creve Coeur, Mo., campus. Construction on the 40,000-sf facility will begin in early 2006 with completion expected in summer 2007. The project team consists of two St. Louis-based firms, Fox Architects and engineering firm William Tao & Associates.
USA Baseball to Build National Training Center
Durham-based USA Baseball , the trainer of the U.S. Olympic baseball team, will construct a $10.8-million National Training Center on 127 acres in Thomas Brooks Park in Cary, N.C. The contractor for the project, T.A. Loving of Goldsboro, will complete construction of the facility by summer of 2007. The center will be comprised of one signature field, three training fields, and retail space. Heery International of Atlanta is leading the project team, with Mulkey Inc.
Lucasfilm Occupies Presidio Campus
Lucasfilm will begin occupancy of its Letterman Digital Arts Center at the Presidio in San Francisco in early July of 2005. Housing between 1,300 and 1,500 employees, the new Presidio headquarters will allow Lucasfilm to consolidate operations from three San Rafael locations. Lucasfilm spent $350 million on the renovation of the 800,000-sf facility, a former army hospital now reconfigured as four separate buildings. Lucasfilm holds a sixty year lease on the property at approximately $6 million per year.
KeyCorp's Tiedeman Campus Receives Green Certification
Financial services company KeyCorp's Tiedeman campus in Brooklyn, Ohio, has been certified by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) as a green building, making it the first financial services complex to earn this designation in Ohio. KeyCorp participated in the USGBC's new rating system called Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB). The Tiedeman property, a former brownfield site, is a 750,000-sf technology and operations campus comprised of two buildings and a parking garage.