Industry News

Emory University will house the new Southeastern Center for Emerging Biologic Threats, a collaboration of state and federal agencies and top researchers working together to combat bioterrorism. Partners in the center include Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, the Medical College of Georgia, Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia Tech, and the University of Georgia. Participating governmental agencies include the U.S.

Contract packaging company Wilpak Inc. is consolidating three smaller plants with the lease of 211,000-sf in AMB Property Corp.'s 370,000-sf Southfield Logistics Center. The Clayton County space, vacated by DSC Logistics, was slated for occupancy October 1 and will replace Wilpak's 66,000-sf Southeast Atlanta Industrial park facility, 50,000 sf in the Atlanta's Empire Industrial Park, and an 82,000 sf Atlanta facility.

Middlebury College of Vermont is building a new 143,000-sf library featuring environmentally-friendly and locally produced materials. Lee Kennedy Co. of Boston provided pre-construction services, now complete, for the project and has now initiated construction. Architects Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects LLC designed the library.

Illinois-based Newell Rubbermaid's home products division is planning a $26.8-million internal expansion of its 1,200,000-sf Greenville plant. The plant will become the single-source manufacturer and distributor for a new product line launched by Rubbermaid. 

Chula Vista's Southwestern College is developing the $22-million Education Village with San Diego State University where the schools will share classroom space. In Otay Mesa, Southwestern and Sweetwater Union High School are planning Project Synergy, a $123-million, 305,900-sf classroom and office facility. The first phase of construction is slated to start in September 2003 and reach completion in early summer of 2005. A new Sweetwater district high school will open adjacent to the facility the following autumn.