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Heritage Harbor Museum has selected Westwood-based StrategIT to design the IT infrastructure for its planned Providence facility in Rhode Island. The 250,000-sf museum, created by a consortium of 19 cultural and historical organizations, will house exhibit space, offices, collections, and library documents and books. Slated for completion in December 2005, the museum will be the first Smithsonian Institution affiliate in New England.

The city of St. Paul will develop a 125,500-sf office warehouse facility on 11 acres near the University of Minnesota as a biotech incubator. The facility will be sold to University Enterprise Laboratories, a university nonprofit created to develop the incubator.

Wingate University, a private North Carolina university, is engaged in several expansion and renovation projects. The Cannon academic building has been upfitted with labs, study rooms, a drug information center, lecture halls, and a student lounge. It will house the new Wingate University School of Pharmacy. The upstairs of the football field house is being converted to office and meeting rooms; completion is expected in August 2003. Renovations to Faculty Drive apartments will be completed this July.

Oregon Health & Science University has received $2.5-million of federal research funding to establish a National Center for Research on Bioterrorism Agents in Portland, Ore. Studying issues important to combating bioterrorism, the center will accommodate over 20 OHSU faculty members focused on disease research. A comprehensive database of pathogens will be developed to create more effective methods of vaccination against a bioterrorist attack.

Queens University of Charlotte, N.C., is planning to construct a $12-million, multi-sport athletic complex on 59 acres at Marion Diehl Park. The facilities will include soccer, baseball, lacrosse, and softball fields, a field house, trails, and track and tennis facilities. The complex will become the home of 11 of  Queens’ 16 varsity sports.