Industry News

Boston Scientific Corp., based in Natick, Mass., will expand its Maple Grove, Minn. campus with the construction of a 120,000-sf office and research lab facility. Boston Scientific plans to begin manufacturing drug-coated stents in the first half of 2004.

Harrisburg University worked with architects Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associates to create the master plan for an 18-acre campus in downtown Harrisburg, Pa. Construction will begin on the first administrative building in May 2006. Student housing and a business incubator will be developed in 2007. Residential buildings with retail space will be constructed in 2009, as will the remaining research area. Construction of more educational space, student housing, a 300-car and 800-car parking garage, and a corporate center will follow.

Ochsner Clinic Foundation has selected TRO/The Ritchie Organization to design a 68,000-sf, three-story cancer center in New Orleans. The center will be comprised of radiation therapy, hematology oncology, chemotherapy, miscellaneous oncology subspecialties, and clinical trials research.

Pharmaceutical company NitroMed Inc. is expanding its corporate headquarters and research facilities with a relocation from Bedford to Lexington, Mass. The site, 52,000-sf of renovated space at the Spring Street Technology Park, was previously the headquarters of Raytheon Co. NitroMed is currently developing nitric oxide-enhancing medicines to treat heart disease.

Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas will begin construction on a $160- to $180-million expansion project in July of 2004. The three-part project will add 180 beds and over 300 parking spaces.