Industry News

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.

Verizon New Jersey’s new customer call center is being built in Hamilton by Cranford-based real estate investment trust Mack-Cali Realty Corp. The $10.7 million, 95,000-sf facility is located in Mack-Cali’s Horizon Center Business Park. Construction on the single-story property is slated for completion in the fourth quarter of 2002. Verizon New Jersey is a division of Verizon Communications.

Sacred Heart Medical Center, part of the PeaceHealth network, has awarded the Portland office of Turner Construction Company the contract to provide pre-construction and general contracting services for a $280-million replacement hospital in Springfield, Ore. Pre-construction begins immediately and construction is scheduled for completion in 2007.

Investment firm J.W. Seligman & Co. of New York has decided to locate a new $7-million data center and customer service center in 60,000 sf of Class A office space in Portland, Maine.

Redundant Networks of Reno has selected the Keystone Office Park in Raleigh as the site of its East Coast data center. The Internet hosting and management start-up selected Raleigh because the city is located on a wide Internet pipeline. Fit-out of the 10,000-sf facility is slated for completion in April with operations to begin in May. Construction is also taking place on the company’s Reno headquarters.