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Industry News
UPS To Relocate New Commodity Trading Division
United Parcel Service (UPS) is searching for a new site for Fritz, its new commodity trading division which provides logistics support and freight service support worldwide. Currently located in 180,000-sf of warehouse and office space in the Southridge industrial park in Atlanta, Fritz must relocate due to airport expansion. UPS is searching for a 100,000-sf to 125,000-sf industrial facility in the same general area as its current location to facilitate airport and interstate freeway access.
Raleigh Community Hospital Installs Web-based HVAC System
Raleigh Community Hospital has awarded a $140,000 contract to Commercial Mechanical Inc. to install a web-based heating and cooling system.
Biogen Dedicates New RTP Facilities
Biogen formally dedicated a 250,000-sf large-scale manufacturing facility in Research Triangle Park in early May. With 120,000 liters of bioreactor capacity, the $173-million facility will give Biogen one of the world's largest biologic manufacturing capacities and will allow the flexibility to produce multiple products in Biogen's pipeline. The biotech giant also dedicated a 150,000-sf lab and office building in Research Triangle Park.
EPA Relocation Prompts Renovation
The Environmental Protection Agency's new 1.2 million-sf campus will be ready for occupancy in summer 2002. The largest facility ever built for the EPA, the campus can house 2,200 employees and 10,000 research animals, and will include 400 individual labs, a cafeteria, a conference center and a child-care center. The National Computer Center, which contains the agency's nationwide data, has already moved to the new headquarters.
UTSA Develops Student Housing
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is planning a new student housing project. Phase one, a $16-million, 500-bed complex, will be built in summer of 2002. Phase two consists of a $25-million, 750-room project. Phase three includes an additional 500 rooms. UTSA, San Antonio’s only major public university, hopes to change its status as primarily a commuter school with the new dormitory facilities. The University is currently engaged in an expansion totalling over $175 million in new construction, half of which is devoted to a new science building.