Industry News

The $17.9-million Regional Transportation Center is under construction in San Diego. Located on a 1.4-acre site in City Heights, the project will feature a 60,000-sf facility that will promote awareness of alternative fuel vehicles. The building is being funded via a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and by the San Diego Environmental Foundation, Ford Motor Co., Pearson Ford, California Air Resources Board, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the city of San Diego.

NASA's current 20-year plan for San Jose's Moffett Field involves creation of a research and development park including almost 2,000 residential units. U.C. Santa Cruz, San Jose State University, and DeAnza-Foothill Community College district may open satellite campuses in the park to accommodate nanotechnology, biotechnology and information sciences research.

California Lutheran University (CLU) in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has completed the new two-story, 24,000-sf Spies Bornemann Center for Education and Technology. Designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership of Los Angeles, the facility includes administrative office space, faculty offices, specialized instructional space, campus television production facilities, and various support functions.

The $800-million Washington Convention Center is slated for completion by March 31, 2003. Bethesda's Clark Construction Group is the general contractor for the 2.3-million-sf facility, which will house over 700,000-sf of exhibit hall space in five halls, 77 multifunctional meeting rooms totalling 125,000-sf, and a 52,000-sf, 5,000-seat ballroom.

Integra Health of San Antonio is developing "professional condominiums" for the medical industry in two office parks in the city. The individual units, for sale rather than lease, will range in size from 4,000 sf to 6,000 sf. Phase one of the 15,000-sf Stone Oak Professional Condominiums project, located on 8.5-acres on the North Central side of the city, will reach completion by late summer 2003.