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Qiagen Sciences Completes New Facility
Qiagen Sciences is completing a 190,000-sf facility in Germantown, where the company is licensed to manufacture products resulting from the collaboration of Seattle-based Qiagen Genomics and The Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Md., on tuberculosis strains. Qiagen Genomics' parent company is Germany-based Qiagen.
Stoneham Executive Center to be Developed
The Boston Regional Medical Center is slated to be redeveloped into the Stoneham Executive Center, an R&D park with office, medical and biotechnology facilities. The $50 million project proposed by the Gutierrez Co. would include modifications to the existing developed 40.7-acre site and construction of 540,000 sf of space in three new office buildings, to be completed around August of 2002.
Dept. of Health Services Builds New Richmond Lab
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.
G.E. Medical Expands Waukesha Complex
G.E. Medical Systems has a 283,500-sf, $40-million expansion under way at its Waukesha complex. A $30-million, three-story addition to the corporate headquarters building will provide 213,000 sf of office and manufacturing space. Completion is anticipated in December 2001. The magnetic resonance building is undergoing a 69,500-sf, $10-million addition that will add two stories to the facility, which houses R&D and manufacturing operations. A manufacturing cleanroom will also be part of the expansion. General contractor for the project is M.A. Mortenson.
Gladstone Institutes Expands at Mission Bay
J. David Gladstone Institutes, a nonprofit medical research center based in San Francisco, plans to expand at Mission Bay with a 180,000-sf biotech research park. The Institutes, whose operations are currently scattered in offices and labs at the campus of the University of California San Francisco, plans to increase its staff of researchers from 260 to 520 by the end of 2010. The new facility will cost $100 million, including the cost of the approximately five-acre site the Institutes plans to purchase. NBBJ Architects is designing the building.