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The State Compensation Insurance Fund Develops New California Campuses
The State Compensation Insurance Fund, headquartered in San Francisco, is building two new campuses in Vacaville and Pleasanton, Calif. A 430,000-sf office complex on 33 acres in Vacaville's Vaca Valley Business Park will accommodate over 1,200 employees in five two-story buildings comprising a total of 434,375-sf. The project will be developed in three phases. Phase one will broke ground in late 2006 and will reach completion on three buildings by late 2008. Phase two will begin in 2009 and conclude in 2011.
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center Opens Torrey Pines Research Center
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center will open a new $24-million research center on its ten-acre Torrey Pines campus in San Diego on November 9, 2006. The 90,000-sf research facility will contain 71,000 sf of dedicated science research space, 54 benches, equipment rooms, and a conference center. Designed by Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker, the research center was constructed by Rudolph & Sletten with Kavanagh Associates as project manager.
Ford Motor Company Contracts Trammell Crow for Real Estate Management
Ford Motor Co. has selected Dallas-based Trammell Crow to provide comprehensive real estate management for Ford's facilities in the United States and Canada. Totaling 30 million sf, the contract includes brokerage, transaction management, lease administration, facility management, and construction project management for Ford's North American portfolio. Ford is headquartered in Dearborn, Mich.
Baptist Hospital East Designs Ambulatory Care Center
Baptist Hospital East has selected the architectural team of Ellerbe Becket and LMH Architects (Laughlin Millea Hillman) to design its new Eastpoint Campus Ambulatory Care Center in Louisville, Ky. The six-story, 185,000-sf facility is slated to begin construction in late spring of 2007 with completion tentatively scheduled for spring of 2009. The first floor will house an outpatient ambulatory surgery center.
University of Chicago Begins Site Work for Ricketts Biocontainment Laboratory
The University of Chicago initiated site work in fall of 2006 on the Howard T. Ricketts Regional Biocontainment Laboratory in Argonne, Ill. The facility will be located on four acres within Argonne National Laboratory. The project team for the $45-million facility includes construction manager Turner Construction of Chicago and designer Flad of Madison, Wisc. Completion is expected in February of 2008.