Industry News

The U.S. Probation Department is building out the sixth, seventh and tenth floors of 101 West Broadway in San Diego. Constructed by San Diego-based Johnson & Jennings General Contracting, the $2-million, 47,000-sf project began in September and is slated for completion in January 2003. The building is owned by Sentre Partners of San Diego, with interior design and space planning services provided by San Diego firm Jossy + Carrier Design Group.

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.

The Smithsonian Institution recently held a topping-out celebration for the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington. The facility's structural concrete frame is now complete. Jones & Jones Architects & Landscape Architects is the design consultant for the museum.

Johnson & Wales University is planning a four-story, 145,000-sf academic center on its new Charlotte campus. Connecting the university's three colleges, the College of Culinary Arts, the College of Business, and the Hospitality College, the facility will be built by RogersDooley, a team of two local contractors.

Atlanta-based Kinetic Biosystems Inc. (KBI) will site its planned $40-million contract biomanufacturing facility in an existing building in north Durham's Teer Technical Park, a five-building campus previously occupied by Mitsubishi Semiconductor America. The facility is expected to open in late 2004 or early 2005. KBI was previously housed in an incubator associated with Georgia Institute of Technology where it focused on developing bioreactor technology.