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California Academy of Sciences Develops San Francisco Facilities
The California Academy of Sciences will lease 204,000 sf south of Market Street in San Francisco as a temporary home while eleven of the organization’s twelve buildings in Golden Gate Park are razed and a new 400,000-sf facility is built. The temporary location will open to the public in January 2004. The 204,000-sf facility will include a 32,000-sf lower level garage that will accommodate tanks and equipment for the ground-floor aquarium.
Purdue University Builds Bindley Bioscience Center
Construction has begun on the new Bindley Bioscience Center, a research building at Purdue University for their campus in West Lafayette, Indiana. The biosciences and engineering facility is one of five centers planned for a new $100-million Discovery Park addition to the West Lafayette campus.
Palomar Pomerado Health Expands Facilities
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.
Loomis Chaffee School Designs New Facilities
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 Develops Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
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.