Storage Technology, a global data storage firm operating as StorageTek, is relocating its regional office from Silver Spring into 25,000-sf at the Lyndwood Executive Center in Elkridge, Md. The Louisville, Colo.-based firm will relocate 135 employees for the company's public sector marketing business unit to the new facility by early 2003. The relocation is estimated to cost $2.5-million.
netVmg is relocating its headquarters from San Jose to 20,000-sf in Fremont. The building includes a manufacturing facility, engineering labs, a technical assistance center, a demo room, and a product testing lab to support the company’s growing production and sales requirements. netVmg develops intelligent route control software to optimize Internet connections for businesses.
The Memec Group of San Diego will relocate in March 2003 from 70,000- f in two Sorrento Mesa buildings to a five-story, 115,000-sf facility under construction in Del Mar Heights. The global semiconductor distributor will initially occupy 92,000-sf with an option to lease the remaining 23,000-sf within one to two years.
Provo, Utah-based Novell is consolidating with a move to 105,000 sf in Hobbs Brook Office Park in Waltham. Consolidating Cambridge and Billerica facilities from its July acquisition of SilverStream Software, the Waltham lease includes occupancy of the building's top floor and one lower floor for at least five years.
The University of California, Berkeley is planning to initiate construction on the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) in the first quarter of 2003. The $60-million, 130,000-sf facility will be sited on the engineering portion of the campus.
Google, looking to consolidate its work force in a single site, has signed a letter of intent to occupy 190,000-sf in Mountain View, Ca. The 4-year-old company could expand occupancy at the location to 300,000-sf in the future. According to industry sources, Google will lease facilities at the 510,748-sf, four-building Legacy Shoreline Center. The complex is not far from Google's existing Mountain View headquarters.
Concord EFS, a leading electronic commerce provider, has acquired 27 acres of land for a new, state-of-the-art world headquarters campus. Construction will begin immediately on the 285,000-sf campus and is scheduled for completion in spring 2004. Almost 1,000 employees will be located at the new facility, consolidating the company's workforce from five Memphis locations into one. The executive offices, administrative functions, customer service operations, terminal deployment facilities, and high-tech data center will be located on site.
The University of California, San Diego has selected Gilbane Co. of Phoenix as general contractor and construction manager for the $102.5-million California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology project, Cal-(IT)2. The 215,000-sf research facility is slated to begin construction in January and reach completion in two years.
Internet services company Internap Network Services Corp. will begin relocation of its Seattle corporate headquarters to Atlanta in October with completion expected by the end of 2002. Seattle will continue to house the company's network operations center, a parallel facility to an Atlanta network operations center that will be built. The co-location facility and supporting engineers will also remain in Seattle.
CPU Technologies Inc. has leased 41,447-sf in the Hacienda Business Park in Pleasanton to house its primary engineering and manufacturing operations. The site, which will employ 130, is in addition to CPU’s existing R&D facility in Pleasanton.
EMC Corp.'s new 650,000-sf engineering and office facility is currently under construction in Hopkinton. Gorman Richardson Architects, based in Hopkinton, designed the facility and an additional parking garage planned on the campus.
Plans for the Silver Spring Innovation Center business incubator are being developed by Montgomery County and developer JBG Cos. Housing up to 15 young bioinformatics and information technology companies, the 12,000-sf facility is slated to open in 2003. The incubator is part of a larger mixed-use residential and commercial development including approximately 100,000 sf on the 3-acre site, possibly as a multi-floor facility.
IBM Corp. is creating a low-power computing research center in Austin to develop energy efficient information technology. Based in Armonk, N.Y, IBM is establishing the Austin lab to increase the power efficiency of servers, software, computer chips and other technologies. IBM has undertaken a company-wide initiative to develop low-power computing.
E Commerce, an electronic billing service headquartered in New York, plans to geographically diversify its operations by placing its new data center in Charlotte. The company will open a 4,600-sf data center in April 2002 at the Claude Freeman Technology Center, which is equipped with an uninterrupted power source and the high-tech equipment E Commerce needs for its operations.
PeopleSoft plans to expand its headquarters at Hacienda Business Park pending approvals from the city of Pleasanton. The company’s existing 815,000-sf complex would be supplemented with a new 181,000-sf, five-story office structure on a vacant parcel owned by PeopleSoft across the street. It is anticipated that the building, which would accommodate approximately 800 people, would cost nearly $30-million, and would reach completion in fall of 2003.
