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St. Johns River Community College has completed construction of the $21-million Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts on its Orange Park, Fla., campus. The 84,666-sf facility houses two art galleries, a business/tourism center, and a 1,750-seat theater. Designed by Reynolds, Smith and Hills Inc., the building was constructed by Dooley Mack Constructors. The facility took eighteen months to design and permit and just under two years to build.

Tenet Health System has recently opened the new 298,000-sf, $52-million Centennial Medical Center (CMC) located on a 40-acre campus in Frisco, Texas. The new acute care hospital, desinged by RTKL Associates of Dallas, is a sophisticated all-digital hospital featuring more than fifty advanced technologies including picture archiving communication systems, an automated drug dispensing system, electronic medical records, and an automated supply management system.

Santa Clara University is planning to construct a new 194,000-sf library on its Santa Clara, Calif., campus. Funded in part by $17 million in contributions from private donors, the library will feature collaborative spaces for small groups, reading and research rooms, traditional study carrels, open stacks, a special collections archive, and an automated retrieval system enabling the library to store and access over a million volumes. 

DeKalb Medical Center is planning a $48.5-million project: construction of a new five-story freestanding patient tower and renovation of existing facilities at its campus in Decatur, Ga. Including replacement facilities for the hospital's labor and delivery, postpartum and newborn nursery units, surgical preparation and recovery areas, and patient/family waiting areas, the patient tower will feature larger rooms, more privacy, and greater efficiency.

Columbia St. Mary's is planning a $100-million expansion of its Mequon hospital campus. Designed by Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum of St. Louis, the 330,000-sf project includes the addition of 77 beds and the construction of an ambulatory care center. Ground will be broken on the expansion in summer of 2005 with completion to follow two years later. Doubling the size of the current hospital, the project will include: