Industry News

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.

Wyeth has worked with McCarthy to upgrade its St. Louis facilities, purchased in 1998, for the production of the hemoophilia drug ReFacto®. McCarthy has completed more than 500 projects for a total of almost $30 million to ready the cGMP manufacturing facilities, labs, warehouse and offices for Wyeth's manufacturing needs. Currently, the St. Louis facility is the only one in the United States producing ReFacto®. Flad & Associates of Madison, Wisc., has provided architectural services.

National City, Calif.-based Corky McMillin Cos. broke ground on the first two buildings in the Liberty Station development in October 2002. Sited at the former Naval Training Center in San Diego, the $62-million project will eventually accommodate 380,000 sf in seven office buildings. The first two facilities are slated to open in mid-2003. The project team consists of architect KMA Architecture and Engineering of San Diego and Bycor General Contractors of San Diego.

Amherst College has selected Payette Associates of Boston to design a new 60,000-sf combined geology building and natural history museum.

Holyoke Hospital and Payette Associates recently broke ground on a 34,000-sf expansion and renovation of the hospital's existing facility.