Industry News

Harvard University will develop the Molecular Target Laboratory with a $40-million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. The laboratory will use high throughput assays to identify disease-causing proteins and discover compounds to block them.

Long Beach Unified School District is nearing completion of its largest project in decades, the Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo Center for Advanced Technology. Totalling 22 separate structures spread over a 54-acre site, the $50-million project had three distinct building phases over three years. Architect for the project is Thomas Blurock Architects of Costa Mesa, Calif., with McCarthy as construction manager.

The City of Jacksonville selected Boston-based Cannon Design to design its $211-million, 1-million-sf county courthouse complex. Cannon provided planning, programming and design services for the project, which included conversion of the old federal courthouse in addition to the new complex.

Intronn, a bioscience company engaged in gene therapy research, will occupy more than 9,000 sf in the 24,000-sf Unique Shared Services Laboratory in Gaithersburg. Currently based in an incubator in Rockville, Intronn will occupy the new facility in March 2003 after the lab space, now in shell condition, is built out. The wet lab facilities in the Unique Shared Services Laboratory will feature sterilization equipment, high-purity water, and compressed air and vacuum lines in a central corridor where they can be used by multiple tenants.

Plans for the new Newseum facility in Washington have been completed by Polshek Partnership Architects and Ralph Appelbaum Associates. The $400-million, 531,000-sf facility will house the six-level, 215,000-sf Newseum, 30,000-sf of retail, approximately 100 condominiums, a restaurant, and new offices for the Freedom Forum, the media foundation that supports the Newseum. Tripling the space of the previous Newseum in Arlington, the facility will be constructed on the former site of the D.C.