Industry News

Robert Morris University has selected Mosites Construction Co. of Robinson Township to build its new football stadium and athletic administration building in Moon Township, Pa. Joe Walton Stadium, featuring 3,000 seats, an artificial turf surface, and locker rooms for teams and officials, is expected to open in September 2005. The stadium will connect to a new 20,000-sf athletic administration facility. The project also includes an all-sports strength and conditioning room and academic tutoring and study rooms. Construction began on June 14, 2005.

In June 2004, San Francisco-based Wells Fargo will begin relocating 2000 members of the company’s Services team to a new 400,000-sf facility sited on 6.25 acres in Ocotillo Corporate Center in Chandler, Ariz. The $75-million, two-building facility is the first phase of a potentially one million-sf development that could house 7,000 Wells Fargo employees.

Logan College of Chiropractic has opened a $4-million research and learning center in Chesterfield, Mo. Housing a distance learning facility, a computer lab with 75 Internet-equipped workstations, a library, and a collection of human skeletons and skulls, the center will accommodate anatomy and human science studies for students, teachers, and area chiropractors.

Seton Healthcare Network broke ground in early June 2004 on a 451,000-sf children’s hospital on the former site of the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in Austin, Texas. The $175-million, 169-bed hospital, called the Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, is slated for completion in 2007. The facility will include a 34-bed emergency department.

The University of California, San Diego has completed construction of the new $45-million Leichtag Family Foundation Biomedical Research Building sited on the School of Medicine campus. General contractor McCarthy’s contract included construction of a four-level, 163,000-sf building with one below-grade level. The research building houses 40,000-sf of wet and dry lab space on four levels with 30 lab modules per floor, cold rooms, procedure rooms, dedicated dark rooms and research offices. The fourth floor houses Howard Hughes Medical Institute-supported research.