Industry News

Altana AG, a Konstanz, Germany-based drug maker, opened its 25,000-sf Waltham, Mass., research offices in late January 2003. Part of a collaboration with Munich-based GPC Biotech, Altana has committed $120 million to develop its U.S. Genomics Research Institute in subleased space in GPC's 85,000-sf Waltham facility.

San Diego Unified School District's High Tech High School has purchased the 38,900-sf Building 49 at Liberty Station in Point Loma. Buildings 36, 37 and 51 will be acquired by summer of 2003, bringing the school's total square footage to 93,107. Located on the site of the former Naval Training Facility, High Tech High School, a public charter school, will occupy 22 of Liberty Station's 361 acres. The site redeveloper is Corky McMillin Cos. of National City.

Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical is developing 6,400 sf of office and manufacturing space in Carlsbad, Calif. The facility, designed by JKE Design and Associates and built by Biostruct, will also house relocated tissue culture, biology and chemistry labs.

North Carolina Central University in Durham is considering an expansion of its 40,000-sf Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute. An additional facility, a mirror image of the existing building, would be sited on an adjacent parking lot. The expansion would enable the University to double its 32-member biotech staff.

Carnegie Mellon University has selected Architectural Resources Group of San Francisco and Turner Construction of San Jose to renovate facilities on NASA's Moffett Field in Mountain View. The University will expand its West Coast campus with 19,000 sf in buildings 23 and 24 of the Shenandoah Plaza quadrangle. The 70-year-old, six-building complex is listed on the state historic register.