Industry News

Johns Hopkins University, located in Baltimore, plans to expand its Shady Grove satellite campus in Rockville with a 130,000-sf building, the third at the 35-acre site. The facility is to house classrooms, administrative offices, and computer labs, as well as outside tenants who work or partner with the University. Spaulding & Slye Colliers was selected by the University to develop the new structure. Future expansion at the site will also be planned by the company.

American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), a nonprofit bioproducts resource center, is planning a $5-million expansion of its Prince William County facilities.

Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies will invest $10 million to renovate the Wachovia building in downtown Atlanta. The building will house the Center for Urban Policy Studies, the school's new nonprofit center, four research centers, and the economics and public administration departments upon completion.

Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) is planning to build a 7,500-sf aviation maintenance training center on land adjacent to its 60,000-sf Middle Georgia Regional Airport maintenance headquarters in Macon. The training center will feature a 3,000-sf equipment and parts storage facility, office space, three classrooms, and general support space. ASA, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, expects to begin construction this summer.

Northrop Grumman, based in Los Angeles, is expanding its operations in Maryland near the Baltimore/Washington International Airport. A new 100,000-sf facility will be built to consolidate its regional operations and to provide swing space while the company makes final expansion plans--possibly as much as 15,000 sf--for northern Rockville.