Industry News

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.

Slough Estates USA is awaiting final approval to build the Britannia East Grand, a 783,533-sf biotech lab campus planned for the site of the former ICI paint factory in South San Francisco. The project, which would take the British firm’s South San Francisco holdings to more than 2.7 million sf, will go before the review board in April, and could break ground by mid-year.

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.