Industry News

Randolph Brooks Federal Credit Union recently broke ground on its new Administrative Service Center in Live Oak, Texas. The 112,000-sf facility will house 350 employees, consolidating administrative personnel from six separate locations. The project is being designed by local architectural firm Chesney-Morales Associates and built by Metropolitan Contracting Co. Slated for completion by fall of 2003, the center will house all back-office operations including marketing, security, call centers, and loss prevention.

Suffolk University is building a new dormitory in Boston's urban Beacon Hill area. Designed by Cannon Design, the facility will be constructed on an 8,700-sf former parking lot and will stand 19 stories above ground with two stories below ground. The west side of the structure will feature a glass curtainwall.

Genzyme Corp. of Cambridge will relocate its biosurgery division to 61,101 sf on floors three through six of a nine-story, 276,000-sf building in Cambridge's Kendall Square.

Serologicals Corp. of Atlanta will decide the location of a second Ex-Cyte manufacturing facility by November 30. Several locations in the Midwest are being considered as the site of the $28-million plant. Completion is slated for the first half of 2004, with a 15 to 18 month construction period.

Serologicals provides biological products and technologies for the research, development, and manufacture of biologically-based life science products.

The University of California at San Francisco will complete the $22-million Genentech Hall next month. The hall is the first facility of the planned 20-building, 43-acre Mission Bay campus encompassing  2,650,000 sf of instructional, support, and biomedical lab facilities. Part of Catellus Development Corp.'s massive 303-acre project, the facility is ready for support staff occupancy as early as October and will see equipment moved in through the end of the year.