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Biomedical Research Models of Worcester, Mass., has relocated part of its operations to 10,000 sf in Springfield. The facility is slated to open in early July of 2003. Biomedical Research Models is affiliated with the Springfield-based Bio-Economic Technology Alliance (BETA), an organization focused on the development of a cluster of biotech manufacturing companies in the area.

Venter Science Foundation Joint Technology Center will open its 60,000-sf facility in Rockville in June 2003. The high-throughput DNA sequencing center will enable scientists from Craig Venter’s Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG) and Duke University to work together to refine genomics research and lower the cost of DNA sequencing technologies. TCAG is a non-profit genomics research and policy center.

Defense contractor BAE Systems will occupy a 161,000-sf facility at Arboretum II in Reston, Va.

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs has leased the 60,767-sf Corporate Oaks One facility in Herndon, Va., from NVCommercial.  The two-story office building, previously occupied by VeriSign, was built in 1985 and renovated in 1999. Metro Management Services will provide property and construction management services.

The University at Albany SUNY has selected M+W Zander to design and construct the new Nanotechnology Design and Research Center. M+W Zander U.S. Operations, a subsidiary of M+W Zander, Stuttgart, will plan and construct the entire complex with an area of 20,000 square meters including a cleanroom with an area measuring 3,500 square meters. The order volume of the first project phase, which is scheduled for completion in early 2004, amounts to $15-million. The new research complex is intended for R&D of pioneering processes and technology used in semiconductor manufacture.