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Texas Woman's University Plans Pickens Health Sciences Center
Texas Woman's University is planning to break ground in 2008 on the $32-million T. Boone Pickens Institute of Health Sciences in Dallas. Combining two of TWU's existing educational sites, the new facility will be located in the Southwestern Medical District at the TWU Parkland location. Accommodating programs in nursing, physical and occupational therapy, healthcare administration, and library science, the 143,000-sf multi-building campus will also house the TWU Stroke Center.
Novartis Plans Shanghai Biomedical R&D Center
Novartis is planning to build an integrated research and development center in Shanghai, China. As the eighth site in the company's R&D network, the center will focus on infectious causes of cancer endemic to China and Asia and pharmaceutical research. Scientists will initially occupy a 5,000-square meter facility slated to open in May of 2007. Construction will begin in July 2007 on a permanent 38,000-square meter building to house 400 scientists.
UC Davis Medical Center Plans Center for Regenerative Science and Therapies
The University of California Davis Medical Center is planning to construct the $75-million Center for Regenerative Science and Therapies in Davis, Calif. The University-funded sterile stem cell research laboratory will include testing and manufacturing capabilities and will partner with the California National Primate Research Center and other campus laboratories. Initial construction fees, yet to be approved by the UC Board of Regents, are estimated at $22 million.
Amgen Completes Rhode Island Lab
Amgen Inc. has completed construction of a 29,000-sf process-development laboratory at its manufacturing site in West Greenwich, Rhode Island. The $26-million facility will house nearly 80 researchers engaged in discovering more efficient processes of manufacturing Embrel, a rheumatoid arthritis drug. Amgen is also constructing an eight-story, 362,000-sf lab and office building in Cambridge's Kendall Square in Massachusetts to house R&D operations. Completion of the Cambridge facility is expected in the first quarter of 2007.
Brooklyn Navy Yard Builds Sustainably Designed High Bay Space
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation broke ground in fall of 2006 on a multi-tenant industrial building designed by Vollmer Associates. The project represents the first phase of an expansion program that will add 400,000 sf of new industrial space to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Six new buildings are planned for development over the next three years. The new three-story building at Perry Street will provide approximately 89,000 sf of space for industrial companies.