Industry News

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.

Northside Hospital in Atlanta plans to begin construction on a five-story medical office facility in summer of 2003. The tower will be constructed atop an existing parking facility. Northside is also seeking state approval to build a $10.7-million, 1,000-car parking deck adjacent to its women's center. The hospital hopes to initiate construction on the nine-level parking deck in March 2003 and reach completion in early 2004.

The nonprofit Piedmont Hospital will relocate administrative operations including accounts payable, financial services, and materials management to 48,400 sf of leased space at the One and Two Paces West complex in Atlanta.

The Alameda County General Services Agency has signed a 30-year lease for the planned Thomas L. Berkeley Square development in Oakland. The 101,000-sf facility will serve as the Social Services Agency's administrative headquarters and will consolidate divisions currently dispersed across Oakland. The North Alameda County Self Sufficiency Center, a welfare job training program, will also be housed in the building.

Basler Electric Co., a Highland, Ill.-based electronic components manufacturer, will open an 18,000-sf plant in Taylor, Texas, to produce custom transformers, generator controls, and relay systems for the industrial, commercial, and electric utility markets. Basler will invest $3-million to upgrade a facility that will employ a minimum of 50 workers. The plant, Basler's seventh manufacturing plant in Taylor, is expected to reach completion in April 2003.