Industry News

The University of Arizona will begin building a $135 million cancer center in summer of 2012. Part of UA's Phoenix Biomedical Campus, the facility will be a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. The six-story, 250,000-sf clinical and translational research building will be operated in partnership with St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center. Completion is expected in mid-2014. 

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee initiated a $53 million renovation and expansion in December of 2011 to create a new facility for the School of Freshwater Sciences. Construction will begin by May of 2012 and reach completion by November of 2013. The existing Great Lakes WATER Institute will be remodeled and expanded to house ecological research laboratories and offices. 

InVivo Therapeutics has entered into a multi-year lease for 21,000 sf at One Kendall Square in Cambridge, Mass. The new facility will serve as the company's fully integrated global corporate headquarters. Bringing all of InVivo's business units under one roof, the facility will house corporate offices, chemistry and biology labs, s surgeon training suite, a rodent vivarium, and a cGMP cleanroom. Occupancy is expected in early 2012. 

Scripps Health will build a $220 million proton therapy center in Mira Mesa, Calif. Construction will begin on the 102,000-sf facility in July of 2012 with completion expected in spring of 2013. The project will be created in partnership with Advanced Particle Therapy. 

Marshall University is planning a $100 million expansion of its campus in Huntington, W.V. The project includes a technology-rich classroom building, an applied engineering complex, a biotechnology incubator, a fine arts incubator, a parking structure, and an athletics complex including a sports medicine translational research facility. Construction will begin in January of 2012.