Industry News

The New York office of Turner Construction Company was awarded a $29 million contract to renovate seven floors of an existing building at the Brooklyn Army Terminal by the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Turner is the construction manager for the 434,000-sf project, and also provided precontruction services to the owner. The architect is LZA Associates of New York City. Construction is scheduled for completion in April 2003.

Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc., and Michael Fieldman Architects are developing an overall site Master Plan for the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Boston Campus. The plan will provide a framework for further expansion and includes implementation of a new 640,000-sf ambulatory building and a 725-car underground garage over the next six years.

Washington Park, a multi-phased 1,100,000-sf corporate office development on a 25-acre campus in Phoenix, is being designed by Phoenix-based DFD Architecture. SunAmerica Investments Inc. is the master developer for the project. The office buildings range from 5 to 10 stories in height. The American Family Insurance building is the first building slated for construction, which is scheduled to begin in August, 2001 and reach completion in fall of 2002.

United States Can Co. of Illinois is consolidating two Georgia facilities into a new 185,000-sf plastics manufacturing facility in the Shenandoah Industrial Park in Newnan, Ga. Developed by First Fulton Associates, the building will be a prototype for other U.S. Can facilities nationwide.  

Laminate flooring manufacturer Pergo AB is planning to add 33,000-sf to its Garner manufacturing plant. Slated for completion in December 2001, the $27-million expansion includes relocation of Pergo's Durham distribution center to an adjacent 180,000-sf facility at the Garner site. Pergo, formerly Perstorp Flooring Inc., is based in Sweden with U.S. headquarters in Raleigh, N.C.  Pergo currently employs 108 workers at its Garner production facility which opened in 1996.