Industry News

Central Montgomery Medical Center broke ground in early February 2003 on a $2-million emergency department renovation. Relocating and doubling the size of the existing department, the project will create 21 private rooms and is slated for completion in 2003. Central Montgomery Medical Center, owned by King of Prussia-based Universal Health Services, is also planning a new $8-million medical office building that will connect to the hospital, to begin construction in late 2003 and reach completion mid-2004.

Toyota Motor Corp. will spend $800-million to construct its sixth North American vehicle manufacturing plant in southwest San Antonio. Sited on 2000 acres, the facility will begin to produce 150,000 Tundra pickups annually in 2006.

Spring Hill College has contracted UNICCO Service Company to provide facilities services at its Mobile, Ala., campus. The three-year contract covers maintenance and custodial services for 700,000 sf in 24 buildings, as well as equipment maintenance and landscaping services for the college campus.

UCSF Genentech Hall, a new biomedical research and teaching building at the University of California San Francisco's new Mission Bay campus, opened in January. Designed by the San Francisco office of SmithGroup, the new five-story, 434,000-sf facility is the first structure to be completed on the 303-acre Mission Bay campus. Once fully occupied, the building will house approximately 900 faculty, students, and staff.

The University of California, Davis, has selected the Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership as architect for the new $78-million Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science.