Industry News

Static Control Components of Sanford is planning to expand with the construction of an 80,000-sf manufacturing facility accommodating the company's photoelectronics interests. The building is slated for occupancy in June 2003.

Richmond, Va.-based Universal Leaf Tobacco Co. is investing $11-million to renovate a 350,000-sf office and warehouse facility in Oxford. Universal Leaf recently completed the construction of a $100-million processing plant in Nash County and the $28-million upgrade of its plant in Danville, Va.

The University of California, San Francisco has completed the 434,000-sf Genentech Hall on its Mission Bay Campus. Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership served as design consultant to SmithGroup for the facility, which is the first to be constructed on the new 43-acre campus in San Francisco. Genentech Hall encompasses chemistry, biochemistry, cell biology and computational laboratories, laboratory support, offices, conference facilities, an auditorium, and a cafeteria.

Icon Clinical Research will consolidate operations totalling 25,000 sf from offices in San Bruno and Mountain View with a move in early 2003 to a five-story R&D and office building in Redwood City. Icon provides biometric and clinical research services for the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. 

A new 215,000-sf medical office campus will be developed adjacent to Sharp Memorial Hospital in Kearney Mesa, Calif. Two Dallas-based firms, architect Perkins & Will CRA and developer Cambridge Holdings, are planning the three-phase project. The first phase will be comprised of a 100,000-sf, four-story medical office facility with underground parking for physicians, and an 800-car, six-level parking structure for visitors and patients. The second phase will be a new 65,000-sf medical office building. The third phase will be a 50,000-sf facility.