Industry News

Technology High School at McKinley's 300,000-sf, $40-million renovation will be delivered by general contractor James G. Davis Construction of Rockville with joint venture partner HRGM. The public/private partnership on the project resulted in $20 million in city-allocated funds with private fund-raising to match, resulting in office space for technology companies also being located on the campus.

Genmark Automation, expanding its tool and factory automation operations for the semiconductor industry, is developing a new 53,000-sf Milpitas facility which will be fully operational by midsummer of 2002. Genmark aims to efficiently produce technologically dynamic integrated automation solutions for customer productivity.

Genzyme Corp. received a $321,750 grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) for its 280,000-sf "green" headquarters under construction in Cambridge.

DreamWorks has relocated its animation offices into 120,000 sf at Pacific Shores Center in Redwood City, Calif. The computer animation division, which is based in Palo Alto and employs 300 workers in three sites, will also be consolidated into the Redwood City facilities.

Morphotek, the first biotech company to graduate from the Port of Technology incubator in West Philadelphia, will occupy a 41,000-sf facility in Exton. Previously located in 2,000 sf in the University City Science Center's Port of Technology building, the genomics-based life sciences company's agricultural technologies require land on which to grow crops. At present, 20,000-sf of the new Chester County headquarters are ready, and Morphotek plans to outfit the remainder for small-scale manufacturing over the next year.  Expansion at the new site