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Washington University dedicated the Harry and Susan Seigle Hall in St. Louis on September 25, 2008. The four-story, 145,736-sf building is located on the University’s Danforth Campus and houses 139 offices, 15 classrooms, and conference rooms. The interdisciplinary facility provides teaching, research, and meeting space for the School of Law and the departments of Economics, Education, and Political Science. The project was designed by Kallman McKinnell & Wood of Boston and constructed by Tarlton Corp. of St. Louis.

MannKind dedicated its new biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Danbury, Conn., in September of 2008. Designed by KlingStubbins and CRB Consulting Engineers, the 263,900-sf project will house production operations from receipt of raw materials, including active pharmaceutical ingredients, through formulation, freezing, freeze drying, powder filling, and primary packaging. The construction manager for the facility was Torcon.

Genzyme Corp. opened the $125 million Science Center in Framingham, Mass., on September 22, 2008. Designed by ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, the facility has attained LEED Gold sustainable design certification. The six-story, 180,000-sf building houses laboratories and offices united by a central atrium. The facility will house 350 employees engaged in cardiovascular, cancer, immunology, and neurology research.

Ascension Health is building the $278 million Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro. The 560,000-sf project began construction in April of 2008 and is slated for completion in late 2010. The 386-bed hospital is being built by Turner Universal.

Baylor Health Care System is planning to build a $350 million cancer center in Dallas. The 450,000-sf facility will include an outpatient cancer center which will open in 2011. A 120-bed cancer hospital will break ground in 2010 with completion expected in 2013.