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Dallas-based Capstar Commercial Real Estate Services is building a 770,000-sf data center in Mesquite, Texas. Developed in partnership with Cambray Group of Walnut Creek, Calif., the facility will be one the largest and most advanced data centers in the United States. The facility was designed by project architect RTKL to meet LEED sustainable design criteria. Thornton Tomasetti is providing structural engineering consultation.

Baystate Medical Center is building a $246 million hospital in Springfield, Ma. The 600,000-sf project broke ground in summer of 2008 and is slated for completion in 2012.

The Burnham Institute for Medical Research has consolidated three Orlando offices in a new 175,000-sf, $85 million research facility designed to study diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. Medical City is a 600-acre science and technology park within Windermere, Fla.-based Tavistock Group’s Lake Nona mixed-use master-planned community.

The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography has opened a new $5 million, 11,000-sf facility to further their research on marine and coastal systems. The Marine and Coastal Science Research and Instructional Center (MCSRIC) houses high-tech lab, conference, office, and collaboration space in a single-story building designed by Lord, Aeck & Sargent of Atlanta, who have targeted LEED Gold certification for the facility.

The recently opened 120,000-sf, $53 million School of Pharmacy building for the University of Waterloo is the first element of a planned Health Science Campus. The city of Kitchener donated eight prime development acres for the planned campus, which aims at bringing a wide range of health-related fields, including the Waterloo Region’s first medical school, together in a compact area. The School of Pharmacy building used mainly local materials in construction.