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Toyota Motor Corp. will spend $800-million to construct its sixth North American vehicle manufacturing plant in southwest San Antonio. Sited on 2000 acres, the facility will begin to produce 150,000 Tundra pickups annually in 2006.
Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., will renovate a classroom in the Crummer Graduate School of Business with $100,000 in funding from the Wachovia Foundation. Renamed the Wachovia Lecture Hall, the hall will be refurbished and upgraded with new technology, including advanced Internet capabilities and projection systems.
The Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is constructing the 93,000-sf Automotive Research Building at SwRI's San Antonio campus. Housing SwRI's 600-employee Automotive Products and Emissions Research Division, the facility will feature state-of-the-art facilities for the division's fleet and field evaluations using full-scale vehicles.
Sigma Xi, an international scientific and engineering honor society, is planning to build its $7-million headquarters in Research Triangle Park. The 50,200-sf facility will house a 200-seat auditorium, conference rooms, office space for the society's 44 employees, and a catering kitchen.
UCSF Genentech Hall, a new biomedical research and teaching building at the University of California San Francisco's new Mission Bay campus, opened in January. Designed by the San Francisco office of SmithGroup, the new five-story, 434,000-sf facility is the first structure to be completed on the 303-acre Mission Bay campus. Once fully occupied, the building will house approximately 900 faculty, students, and staff.
