Industry News

The U.S. Air Force has selected The Korte Co. of St. Louis to construct a 70,000-sf warehouse and post office facility at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Okla. Slated for completion by year-end 2005, the project includes the demolition of ten existing buildings and the renovation of an existing warehouse.

MetroTech Chemicals Inc. is expanding operations in Charlotte, N.C. Currently located in 17,000 sf, MetroTech plans to renovate its existing facility and construct an additional 20,000 sf of warehouse, production, office, and mezzanine space. Construction will begin in early spring 2005 and reach completion in August 2005. The project architect is Laughing Dog Studio Architecture, with the Charlotte office of Choate Construction Co. as general contractor.

The $100 million California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research is nearing completion at the Mission Bay campus in South San Francisco. The 153,000-sf facility is the first of four buildings that will make up the institute known as QB3 and is connected to U.C. San Francisco's Genentech Hall on all five stories. The Mission Bay facility will house a magnetic resonance imaging machine, a high through-put screening facility, a 250,000-compound chemical library for drug development, and 8,000 CPUs.

Gehl Co., based in West Bend, Wisc., is engaged in an $8.7 million expansion of its Yankton, S.D., manufacturing facility. Adding capacity for production, manufacturing, and equipment, the 49,000-sf addition will be complemented by a 4,000-sf research and development area. Gehl Co. manufactures telescopic handlers and pavers.

Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton celebrated the grand opening of the recently completed Beachler Nursing University on February 17, 2004. The $1.3-million facility houses faculty offices, two classroom, an Internet cafe, and a conference room.