Industry News

Nielsen Media Research (NMR), a provider of television audience measurement and monitoring services, has completed its new $71.5 million, 39-acre corporate campus in Oldsmar, Fla. The 475,000-sf Phase I campus consists of five interconnected buildings which include training rooms, conference facilities, and a 4,000-sf employee cafeteria that can accommodate over 330 people. The project features a four-story, 100,000-sf data center and central plant with a 25,000-sf computer room.

Shriners' Hospital for Children in Mexico City is now 73 pecent complete. Constructed by Beck, the 311,000-sf facility consists of three storeis and a basement housing 80 pediatric and four critical care beds.

German firm ORAFOL USA will construct a 20,000-sf facility in the Interstate Centre industrial park in Bryan County, Ga., to house its U.S. headquarters and first manufacturing operations outside of Germany. Slated for completion in 2006, the facility represents a $45 million investment over two development phases. The project will create sixty new jobs by year-end 2008. ORAFOL USA, a subsidiary of Oranienberg-based ORAFOL Klebetechnik GmbH, produces PVC films for use in reflective films, adhesive tapes, and graphics products.  

Site preparation has begun on Target Corp. 's new $110-million retail distribution center in De Kalb, Ill. The 1.5 million-sf facility will initially employ 500 workers and will potentially double that count over the next few years.

Construction has begun on the $50.5-million Morgan Hill Courthouse and Justice Agencies Complex in Morgan Hill, Calif. The 73,000-sf, two-story plus basement Superior Court building will house a court clerk's office, six courtrooms, jury assembly and deliberation spaces, and day-holding detention spaces. The adjacent one-story, 17,000-sf Justice Agencies facility will accommodate offices for the probation department, county district attorney, and public defender. Occupancy is slated for August 2006.