Siemens Electromechanical Components Inc. opened a new three-story, 100,000-sf headquarters in July at the Westpark Office Center. R&D, customer service reps, and corporate executives are housed at the new facility constructed by Group VI Corp. of Stockbridge.
Serono Laboratories Inc., based in Norwell, Mass., plans to consolidate its offices and labs at a new $20 million, 200,000-sf headquarters that will straddle the town line between Hingham and Rockland. A.W. Perry Inc. of Boston is the developer on the project. Construction has not yet begun, but move-in is scheduled for late 2000.
Serono Labs is a drug-development company and a subsidiary of Ares-Serono Group SA of Geneva, Switz.
Cisco Systems Inc. is in the process of obtaining zoning for a planned 2.3 million-sf office and R&D facility on 153 acres in the Alviso community of North San Jose. About 10 buildings are planned, with construction occuring in two phases: 1.6 million sf in phase one, and 600,000 sf in phase two.
Groundbreaking, contingent upon approval by the San Jose City Council, could begin in late spring or early summer 2000, with occupancy 16 months later. Construction costs are estimated at $575 million.
Cisco Systems Inc. is planning a $1 billion R&D complex at the Coyote Valley Research Park. Construction is scheduled to begin in summer 2000 on the 6.6 million-sf project, with completion anticipated in 2002. DivcoWest Properties Inc. of San Jose and Gibson Speno Co. are joint developers of the 365-acre campus.
Cisco is currently building a $100 million, 1.1 million-sf project--Site 5--in nearby Milpitas. September 2000 is the scheduled completion date for the project, which was designed and built by San Jose's DevCon Construction Inc.
Stanford University has a new four-story Center for Clinical Science Research, designed by Ove Arup & Partners of San Francisco to withstand a major earthquake. The facility incorporates base isolators designed by Earthquake Protection Systems Inc. of Richmond, Calif.
The Palo Alto Medical Foundation is scheduled to open its new $120 million, 300,000-sf campus in Palo Alto in September. The project consists of two buildings that accommodate the 140-doctor medical group, the research division, and the educational outreach group.
Ellerbe Becket of Minneapolis and RMW Architecture and Interior Design of San Francisco designed the facility; Swinerton Inc. of San Francisco was the general contractor.
Lucent Technologies' Titania division has completed construction of a new 65,000-sf building at the Carlsbad Research Center to house labs, a cleanroom, offices and support space for Lucent Power Systems. The designer of the project is Smith Consulting Architects of San Diego, Calif.
Ericsson Inc. may expand operations at its 118-acre campus in Research Triangle Park following the liquidation of its real estate holdings around the world. The RTP site houses the company's mobile phone R&D unit.
