Industry News

Martin Marietta Materials is seeking a manufacturing and assembly plant near its Raleigh headquarters as part of a move to enter the composites business segment. If Martin Marietta's aggregate technology is licensed, the plant could manufacture a fiberglass, rope fabric and polyester resin composite product.

Tokyo-based Eisai is expanding its 24,000-sf facilities at the Keystone Industrial Park in Durham with the lease of an additional 40,000 sf. The pharmaceutical company plans to add 30 employees and gain more distribution space, in addition to Eisai's 85,000-sf manufacturing facility in Research Triangle Park. Eisai's U.S. headquarters are in Teaneck, N.J.

An expansion of the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center will create a new $160-million "City of Medicine Center". The mixed-use campus will include research labs, private-sector medical office buildings, educational-administrative offices, residential facilities and retail space. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is joining national real estate firm LCOR of Pennsylvania in developing the City of Medicine Center, which is slated to begin construction in four to six months.

The Children's Hospital of Denver has selected Houston-based FKP Architects, Inc. to lead the architectural team for its new hospital at the Fitzsimons campus. As architect of record, FKP will oversee all planning of medical space, working with Zimmer, Gunsul, Frasca Partnership (ZGF) of Portland as principal designer. Denver's H+L Architecture will handle construction documentation and contract administration. Children's main hospital currently operates out of eight adjacent buildings on its main campus in Denver.

The Medical University of South Carolina has awarded NBBJ Architects the architectural design contract for its Clinical Facilities master plan.