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O'Connor Hospital Plans Expansion
O'Connor Hospital in San Jose approved a three-year strategic plan in November 2002 that will expand physician office space and enhance orthopedic and cardiovascular services. O'Connor will remodel a recently purchased a 32,000-sf building on the city's east side to house a new primary care clinic. The facility will open by year-end 2003. A new $7-million emergency department, relocated from the back of the hospital to the front, will double existing emergency facilities to house 22 beds and will include an urgent care unit.
Bayer Diagnostics Consolidates in Berkeley
Bayer Diagnostics, a division of Bayer Corp., has vacated seven East Bay locations to consolidate operations in a recently completed 75,000-sf Berkeley building. Located in Wareham Development's Aquatic Park where Bayer Diagnostics will continue to occupy space in two adjacent buildings, the five-story facility was built to the division's specifications.
Guepard Energy To Build Four Imperial County Plants
San Diego-based Guepard Energy will construct four 5-megawatt plants in Imperial County, Calif., that will use methane gas from cow manure to make electricity. Construction of the first facility, located near a beef-processing plant in Brawley, will begin in April 2003. The four plants will cost $50-million to build and will process 1.6 million pounds of manure a day. The San Diego office of Archer Western, a division of Chicago-based Walsh Group, will oversee the project.
San Diego State University Expands Gateway Center
San Diego State University (SDSU) has selected Highland Partnership of San Diego as the design-build contractor for a $10.4-million, 60,000-sf classroom and office building. Construction of the four-story addition to SDSU's Gateway Center facility is expected to begin in December 2002. Construction manager for the project is O'Connor Construction.
Buck Distributing Completes Upper Marlboro Facility
Buck Distribution recently completed the design and construction of its new 150,000-sf office and distribution facility in Upper Marlboro. Designed and built by R.W. Murray Co., the building houses 65,000 sf of warehouse space and 42,000 sf of interior loading and staging areas. Also on the project team were Ben Dyer Associates of Mitchellville, Md., GMA Architects of Tampa, Fla., and Beverage Distribution Facilitators of St. Louis.