Industry News

Oregon State University is planning a technology research park on 52 acres near its Corvalis, Ore., campus. The RFP process is expected to reach completion by year-end 2004, with the first building opening in July of 2006. Comprised of as many as three anchor buildings housing multiple companies, the project will also house laboratory and office space. Targeted industries include bioscience and health, mixed signal processing, and pharmaceuticals. The first multiclient building will be between 40,000 sf and 85,000 sf.

Columbus State Community College is planning to construct a second campus on 108.66 acres in Delaware County. Campus plans describe three 70,000-sf facilities constructed at a cost of $43 million. The first building will house classrooms, computer labs, and various business functions. The campus, which will relieve space pressure at Columbus State’s downtown campus, may take up to four years to open.

Aurora Health Care is planning an $85-million, 88-bed hospital as part of a new medical campus on the Pabst Farms development in the Town of Summit, Wis. Sited on 184 acres, the new full-service hospital will feature the latest equipment for diagnosis and treatment, a comprehensive electronic medical record system, and all-digital diagnostics. 

North Carolina A&T State University has broken ground on a new 74,000-sf science facility on its Greensboro campus. Construction cost for the project is $13.5 million; with laboratory equipment and fit out, the total project cost will be $20.5 million. Project contractor F.N. Thompson Co. of Charlotte is slated to complete construction on the three-story building by January 2006. Housing the departments of chemistry and psychology, the building will forward the school’s medical research efforts.

Hudson Valley Community College has completed its new $8.4 million co-generation facility in Troy, N.Y. Using methane captured from a local landfill, the facility also uses heat generated from the process to heat buildings at the school. Hudson Valley is the first college in the state university system to reach energy independence.