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Clark University has selected Waltham-based Genesis Planners to design a new 30,000-sf field house and athletic fields at Granger Field in Worcester. Including locker rooms and training facilities for outdoor athletic teams and recreational sports, the $7.5-million facility features a 16,000-sf multipurpose practice space.

Ground was broken on Saint Mary's College's new Syufy Performing Arts Center in May. The 7,000-sf building will house programs in dance and music in addition to providing space for individual and group instrument practice. A scene design and storage facility is included in the project. The building, slated for completion in 2003, is named after regent and trustee Raymond J. Syufy.

Temple University is planning to build a new ambulatory healthcare center in Philadelphia next to its main hospital. The building, designed with the flexibility to potentially grow to 10 floors, will initially consist of two stories and a basement. Current plans include a sub-basement radiation therapy facility with the first floor housing patient registration and other radiation therapy. Traditional GI procedures, short procedure cases and some ambulatory surgery functions will be located on the second floor.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are seeking approximately 200,000 sf, housed together in preferably a historic building. This arrangement, pending congressional approval, is leading the NEA and NEH to consider space in the Woodward & Lothrop project, a 550,000-sf former department store. The "Woodies" building, built in phases from 1902 to 1926, could be ready for move-in a year following the signing of a pre-lease.

Cuyamaca College in El Cajon has completed its new 10,500-sf, $3.5-million child development center. Designed by San Diego-based NTD Architects, the facility was built by La Mesa, Calif., contractor Kvaas Construction Co.