Industry News

American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), a nonprofit bioproducts resource center, is planning a $5-million expansion of its Prince William County facilities.

Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies will invest $10 million to renovate the Wachovia building in downtown Atlanta. The building will house the Center for Urban Policy Studies, the school's new nonprofit center, four research centers, and the economics and public administration departments upon completion.

Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) is planning to build a 7,500-sf aviation maintenance training center on land adjacent to its 60,000-sf Middle Georgia Regional Airport maintenance headquarters in Macon. The training center will feature a 3,000-sf equipment and parts storage facility, office space, three classrooms, and general support space. ASA, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, expects to begin construction this summer.

Northrop Grumman, based in Los Angeles, is expanding its operations in Maryland near the Baltimore/Washington International Airport. A new 100,000-sf facility will be built to consolidate its regional operations and to provide swing space while the company makes final expansion plans--possibly as much as 15,000 sf--for northern Rockville.

The General Services Administration is developing plans for the Southeast Federal Center, a 3 million-sf office, retail, residential and cultural complex. The GSA has issued a request for qualifications outlining criteria for selecting the development team for the project. The U.S. Department of Transportation became the anchor tenant when it decided in July to locate its 1.7 million-sf headquarters, which employs 7,000 workers, on 11 of the Center's 55 acres.