Industry News

Software firm PeopleSoft is constructing a 180,000-sf facility on 20 acres in Pleasanton, Calif. The $45-million project is expected to reach completion in the third quarter of 2003.

Biodynamic Research Corp. (BRC) will lease 38,000 sf in a new 70,045-sf single-story tech building in San Antonio. Ground was recently broken on the facility, the second phase of the University Heights Tech Center, by developer R.L. Worth and Associates of San Antonio. The building will feature a high degree of office finish-out and large floorplates, as well as a high parking ratio: 6.16 cars per 1,000 rentable square feet. BRC is a professional services and research firm and a leading consultant in biodynamics research.

NVR Building Products will house its product manufacturing division in a 131,000 sf facility on fifty acres in Delanco, N.J. The building will be constructed by Charlotte, N.C.-based real estate developer The Keith Corp. The $12-million project is slated for completion by November 2003. NVR Building Products is a subsidiary of NVR Inc., a homebuilding and mortgage banking company based in McLean, Va.

The Loomis Chaffee School has selected Boston-based William Rawn Associates, Architects to design a new performing arts center and classroom building on the school's Windsor, Conn., campus. The cost for both projects is $32 million.

The University of Maryland has selected Bethesda-based Clark Construction as the general contractor for the $39-million Jeong H. Kim engineering building located on the school’s College Park campus. Designed by Oudens+Knopp/SmithGroup, the facility will house 22 labs for research and education in environmental engineering, transportation systems, and space research. The Kim building is slated for completion in December 2004.