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Design of Microsoft's New England Office Completed
Interior design of Microsoft's $3.3-million New England office was completed by Boston-based SBA/Steffian Bradley Associates Inc. Located in the Waltham/Weston Corporate Center, the 50,000-sf project is a joint venture of contractor Turner Construction SPD of Boston and AVRP/Austin Veum Robbins Parshalle of San Diego.
SouthTrust Builds Data Center in Marietta
SouthTrust is building its 72,000-sf Atlanta Data Center in Marietta, Ga., where check- and data-processing for the company's Georgia, Virginia, and North and South Carolina markets will be housed. SouthTrust, based in Birmingham, Ala., with operations throughout the Southeast, will relocate 300 workers to the center from their current Fulton County, Ga. offices. The facility is slated for completion in June of 2002.
Valero Builds San Antonio Headquarters
Valero Energy Corp. has selected SpawGlass Contractors of San Antonio to build its new headquarters at the 148-acre campus of Ultramar Diamond Shamrock (UDS), recently acquired by Valero. The 200,000- to 300,000-sf office structure will consolidate Valero’s operations. Plans for the company’s existing two-building, 260,000-sf headquarters in North San Antonio are uncertain. Existing buildings at the UDS site include a headquarters (225,000 sf) and an annex (20,000 sf); both buildings, as well as the existing Valero headquarters, are full to capacity.
E Commerce To Open Charlotte Data Center
E Commerce, an electronic billing service headquartered in New York, plans to geographically diversify its operations by placing its new data center in Charlotte. The company will open a 4,600-sf data center in April 2002 at the Claude Freeman Technology Center, which is equipped with an uninterrupted power source and the high-tech equipment E Commerce needs for its operations.
Office of Naval Research Consolidates with Liberty Center Facility
The Office of Naval Research will consolidate its area employees at a new 13-story, 330,000-sf office facility at Liberty Center. Architect for the 1.7 million-sf Liberty Center complex is SmithGroup, with Clark Construction acting as general contractor. The Shooshan Co. is the developer for the $200-million redevelopment of the 4-acre former Ballston Center. Construction at the site is scheduled to begin in June 2002, with completion anticipated in 2004.