Industry News

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.

National Surgical Hospitals (NSH) opened the 30-bed Spine Hospital of South Texas and an accompanying medical office building in September. A joint venture of NSH and approximately 20 local physicians, the $30-million Stone Oak medical development will specialize in surgical spine care and pain management. The facility is designed to eventually expand to 40 rooms.

Idec Pharmaceuticals broke ground in October 2002 on its new five-building corporate headquarters and laboratory facility in San Diego's University Towne Center. San Diego-based Cisterra Partners is developer of the 42.6-acre project, with Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum of St.

Nissan Technical Center North America (NTCNA) is engaged in a 126,000-sf expansion of its Technical Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The $38.8-million project is comprised of additions to the engineering building, prototyping, testing, and styling (PTS) building, parking lots and styling studio, as well as improvements to the facility's mechanical and electrical infrastructure.

Kaiser Permanente has completed construction of the new $20-million Parkview Medical Office Building on Kaiser's Harbor City Medical Center Campus in Harbor City, Calif. The three-story, 106,000-sf structure houses exam and procedure rooms, allowing for ophthalmology, optometry, optical sales, pharmacy, urology, gastroenterology, surgery clinic, oncology, care management, pain clinic, and diagnostic imaging services to be performed at the site.