Industry News

Carltas Development Co. of Carlsbad is planning to construct a 125,000-sf master-planned biotechnology business park on a 10-acre site in the Paul Ecke Ranch in Encinitas, Calif. Designed by McGraw/Baldwin Architects of San Diego, the project will house office, research, and laboratory space. General contractor Good & Roberts of Vista may begin construction as early as summer of 2003.

The University of California, San Francisco has leased 66,000 sf of office space in San Francisco for its Medical Center finance and strategy group. UCSF is consolidating Medical Center finance operations at the new location, chosen for its proximity to the University's new Mission Bay campus.

Facilities and transportation engineering firm URS Corp. has leased 36,000 sf at Northpark Town Center in Atlanta. URS is vacating space at Corporate Campus in Alpharetta, at Peachtree Center North Tower, and at a small office in Tucker to consolidate operations in Atlanta.

Kaiser Permanente of Santa Clara, Calif., will house outpatient behavioral medicine, chemical dependency services and administrative functions in 100,000 sf of recently leased space in Cupertino. Located near Kaiser's new $800-million hospital in Santa Clara, the facility will feature large meeting rooms.

Sutter Health awarded Skanska USA Building the pre-construction services assignment for the Memorial Medical Center north tower addition, scheduled to be built in Modesto, Calif. The pre-construction phase will begin in the first quarter of 2003. If the project enters the construction phase, which is expected to begin in May 2004, the anticipated construction value could be approximately $105 million.