Industry News

Maniflo Inc. has selected Marcotte + Hearne Builders to construct its 5,700-sf corporate headquarters and computer operations center in National City, Calif. The $1.5-million project was designed by Urban Collaborative of San Diego.

U.S. Air Conditioning Distributors will locate its Northern California regional office in San Leandro. Sited on an 18-acre parcel, the company will occupy 162,000 sf of the 288,000-sf Fairway Properties facility. U.S. Air Conditioning Distributors, based in the City of Industry, Calif., is the world’s largest privately owned HVAC company.

NCI Information Systems has contracted Chantilly, Va.-based Dietze Construction Group to perform the buildout of its new 75,500-sf office in Reston, Va. The project was designed by The M Group in Vienna, Va. 

Exact Sciences Corp. is relocating from Maynard, Mass. into a 55,000-sf office and laboratory space at Building One at 3Com Drive in Marlborough. Exact Sciences, a company that uses applied genomics for the early detection of common cancer types, has contracted Newton-based Diversified Project Management to manage the relocation.  

The Institute for Economic Development will occupy its new $6-million facility in downtown San Antonio by July of 2003. Located near the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), the new facility will enable collaboration with UTSA faculty and interns. Ground was broken on the 33,000-sf facility last March. The Institute of Economic Development will relocate its 90 employees from its current KellyUSA location to the four-story facility, which is wired for videoconferencing and distance-business learning workshops.