Industry News

Yuma Regional Medical Center is engaged in a $58.6 million renovation and expansion of its Yuma, Ariz., facility. The multi-phased project includes a new six-story tower featuring a 42-bed critical care unit, a 36-bed medical/surgical unit, and a dedicated heart center entry. The central plant, parking, and underground utilities will also be renovated and relocated. Scheduled for completion in December 2004, the approximately 250,000-sf project was designed by Stichler Design Group with McCarthy as general contractor.

Andrx Corp. has awarded O’Neal Inc. of Greenville, S.C., the contract to renovate the first 70,000 sf of a 480,000-sf Morrisville, N.C., manufacturing facility that Andrx acquired from Bristol-Myers Squibb in 2003. The $23-million first phase will create laboratory, warehouse, packaging, and administrative space. Slated for occupancy in early 2005, the plant will employ 400 workers when it reaches full operational status, nearly doubling Andrx’s manufacturing capacity.

Genentech has expanded with the lease of 141,348 sf of office space in an 11-story, 249,732-sf building in Boston Properties’ Gateway Commons in South San Francisco.  

St. Luke’s Hospital has completed the $3.1-million renovation of its Quakertown, Pa., emergency department. The new 11-room facility features a more private registration area and treatment rooms, a larger waiting room, an isolation room for patients with infectious diseases, special pediatric treatment rooms, and a hazardous materials room with a decontamination shower.

Cytec Corp, a developer and manufacturer of women’s medical diagnostic products, is relocating its headquarters from 100,000 sf in Boxborough to 216,000 sf in the former 3Com campus in Marlborough. Construction and improvements to the property will begin in summer of 2004 with occupancy slated for early 2005.