Industry News

Aviation Institute of Maintenance has relocated to a $2-million, 16,000-sf facility constructed for the school by Turner Construction at the Northeast Philadelphia Airport.  Formerly known as the Quaker City Institute of Aviation, the school moved to its new location from South Philadelphia.

Storage Technology, a global data storage firm operating as StorageTek, is relocating its regional office from Silver Spring into 25,000-sf at the Lyndwood Executive Center in Elkridge, Md. The Louisville, Colo.-based firm will relocate 135 employees for the company's public sector marketing business unit to the new facility by early 2003. The relocation is estimated to cost $2.5-million.

Epsilon has awarded Boston-based Structure Tone of Massachusetts the construction management contract for the interior construction of 90,000 sf of new office space and a 10,000-sf data center in Wakefield.

Baylor University has selected McCarthy to build a four-level, precast concrete structure to house parking, office, and shell space.

FedEx will occupy a 65,000-sf facility on a six-acre parcel in an industrial business park planned in San Leandro, Calif. Developed by McMahon Development Group LLC, the 21-acre park is comprised of nine parcels and will include up to seven additional light industrial facilities totalling 300,000 sf. These planned buildings are being marketed to eco-industrial users, companies who divert and utilize materials that would otherwise go into the city landfill.