Industry News

Tasus Corp, a supplier to Toyota Motor Corp., will construct a $13.3 million, 100,000-sf plastic injection-molding plant on 23 acres in Georgetown, Texas. Construction is expected to begin in early 2003 and reach completion in late 2004.  

The Eisai Research Institute of Boston, a biopharmaceutical research firm, is planning a $50-million expansion and consolidation project in Andover, Mass. Eisai will break ground in late summer of 2004 on a 150,000-sf facility replacing a 66,825-sf office sited adjacent to the company’s existing 40,000-sf drug discovery facility. A new 5,000-sf addition is also included in the project, which involves the consolidation and relocation of Eisai’s Wilmington lab space to the new facility when it opens in 2006.

Vista Community College will begin construction in spring of 2004 on a new $45.9 million building in Berkeley, Calif. The 165,000-sf facility will accommodate 5,400 students and is slated for completion in September of 2005.

Kaiser Permanente opened a new 70,000-sf medical clinic in Livermore, Calif. in mid-December 2003. The two-story facility will accommodate basic adult and pediatric services, a pharmacy, women’s health, optical sales, and X-ray/laboratory services. An additional 20,000-sf may be developed at the site in the future.

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has awarded McCarthy a $13.3 million contract to add 39,600-sf to the existing biomedical library and to renovate the attached biomedical library structure on the La Jolla campus. General contractor McCarthy will construct the library addition while the existing library remains operational. Upon completion of the addition, the new library area will open while the existing building will be vacated and renovated, with an end result of one contiguous 74,690-sf facility.