Industry News

Palomar Pomerado Health has selected Anshen + Allen of Los Angeles to design the $210-million expansion of Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, Calif. and the $63-million expansion of Pomerado Hospital.

Roswell, N.M.-based Strategic Data Systems is developing a facility capable of hosting 1 million gigabytes of data in in two former Atlas F nuclear missile silos. Comprising 1.2 million sf, the 22-floor facility will have 100 servers on each floor. The massive computer storage system will be protected by a structure built to withstand most natural and manmade disasters, and features four-foot-thick concrete walls, 4,000-pound steel doors, and a diesel-powered backup generator. The silos will employ sixty workers once operational.

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.