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BioHouston Inc. Develops Biotech Research Park
BioHouston Inc., a business incubator, is planning to build a $633-million biotechnology park on 64 acres in Houston. The lab and office park will facilitate life science research by bringing the medical, educational, and corporate communites together in a centralized location. Construction on the first building in the biotech park will be completed in late summer of 2002 by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
UT-San Antonio Builds Center for Infrastructure Assurance & Security
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is building a center for computer network security, the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS). The CIAS will receive $5 million in federal funding in the next three years, which will move forward several projects including development of lab facilities at UTSA's Loop 1604 campus and at Lackland AFB.
Alexandria Real Estate Develops Cambridge Lab Space
Pasadena, Calif.-based Alexandria Real Estate is developing 50,000 sf in Cambridge as speculative, generic lab space. Built out to between 80 percent and 100 percent completion, 790 Memorial Drive will facilitate quick move-in of early-stage life science companies. The project site is being developed for Alexandria by Spaulding & Sly of Boston and is located behind Polaroid Corp.'s headquarters.
Tokyo Electron America Plans R&D Facility
Tokyo Electron America is in the early planning stages for a $50-million, 40,000-sf 300-millimeter process integration center. The R&D facility will focus on developing tools for 300-mm chip manufacturing. Construction is slated to begin within two years at a 32-acre site near the company’s current operations in Southeast Austin. The semiconductor equipment supplier is a subsidiary of Tokyo Electron Ltd. based in Japan.
Verizon Designs Fuel Cell Facility For Call-Routing Center
Verizon has awarded a program management contract to Syska Hennessy Group to design and build a fuel cell facility as the primary electrical power source at their 332,000-sf Garden City call-routing center. Pending permit approvals, Verizon plans to start installation of seven fuel cells manufactured by UTC Fuel Cells, a unit of United Technologies Corp. The system is expected to be fully operational in 2004 and will operate in parallel with four new natural-gas powered engine generators, totaling more than 4 megawatts of generating capacity.