Industry News

Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana has awarded the Dallas office of RTKL the architectural design contract for the development of the Cardiovascular Center of Excellence. The new approximately 75,000-sf, $32-million addition will consolidate all cardiovascular, neurovascular, and peripheral vascular services in one state-of-the-art location. The project, which is already underway, is slated for completion in the fourth quarter of 2004.  

St. Luke's Hospital, an affiliate of Sutter Health System, is constructing a $6.4-million heart center featuring a cardiac catheterization lab. The center, which will also house equipment for non-invasive diagnostic procedures such as echocardiograms and stress tests, is expected to open in spring of 2003.

Better Choice Packaging, a packaging and display company serving companies including Hershey, Arm & Hammer, and Bath & Body Works, will relocate operations from a 26,000-sf Camden facility to a newly purchased 50,300-sf, $640,000 facility sited on four acres in Camden, N.J.

The San Jose City Council has approved the creation of a $6.5-million bioscience incubator in the city's Edenvale development. Housing wet labs, offices, common space, and support for up to fifteen bioscience startups, the 33,750-sf facility is expected to open in spring of 2004.

Construction will begin in March 2003 on the first building of Trammel Crow's planned $300-million Patriot Plaza in Washington, D.C. The first phase, designed to accommodate a government or private tenant, consists of a 280,000-sf office facility pre-engineered to meet stringent security regulations, including the framework to accommodate blast-proof windows, 30-foot setbacks from the curb, a hardened shell, and progressive collapse avoidance.