Industry News

The University of Denver has contracted Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott in association with H & L Architects of Denver to design the new College of Law building, the nation's first certified "green" law school. The 190,000-sf, $50-million facility, located on the main campus at University Park, will meet the exacting standards of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system.

The University of California, San Diego is opening the $37-million, 109,076-sf Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall on its La Jolla campus in November. The privately funded facility was made possible by individual gifts of $17.2-million, $8-million, and $12-million. The building will accommodate 100 graduate students, 60 scientists, and 14 faculty professors, as well as housing the Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement, a program designed to speed the process of translating basic research for clinical or industrial use.

Cendant Mortgage is building a 175,000-sf office building in the Bishops Gate Business Center in Mount Laurel, N.J.  Developed by Liberty Property Trust of Malvern,N.J., the facility is Cendant's third building in Bishops Gate and will accommodate 1,200 mortgage processing employees. The relocation is part of Cendant's overall plan for expansion. The building is slated for completion in January.

The Wake Forest University School of Medicine is planning to expand its Piedmont Triad Research Park by 180 acres. The expansion would increase the four-building, 600-worker park to ten times its current size.

Scios Inc. is relocating to 200,000 sf in Fremont's Ardenwood Corporate Center from Sunnyvale, Calif. The move will begin in January 2003 and reach completion in September. The biotech's new two-building facility will house business operations, research, medical affairs, and, potentially, manufacturing. Scios, a developer of drugs for heart disease and inflammatory diseases, currently employs 450.