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Northrop Grumman Expands in Maryland
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.
GSA Plans Southeast Federal Center Redevelopment
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.
Austin Community College Builds Health Sciences Center
Austin Community College (ACC) broke ground in April on its new 146,000-sf Health Careers Building. The $29-million health sciences center will be located at ACC’s Eastview campus in East Austin and will house up to 600 students. The facility will be built in two phases. Phase One, with a budget of $17.2 million, will provide 89,000 sf of lab, classroom and office space for nursing, surgical technology, radiology and dental hygiene programs. Completion of Phase One is anticipated in fall of 2003.
UCSD Builds New Research Facility
The University of California San Diego (UCSD) has awarded the San Diego office of McCarthy Building Cos. a $42.4-million contract to build a new School of Medicine research facility. McCarthy, based in Newport Beach, Calif., began construction in February on the 146,382-sf, four-story facility. The project is slated for completion by February of 2004. UCSD’s 110,000-sf Powell-Focht Bioengineering Building is also being built by McCarthy.
Advanced Micro Devices To Renovate Austin Fab 25
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will invest $350 million in the next two years to convert its Fab 25 processor chip plant in Austin into a flash memory plant. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chip manufacturer hopes to equip the plant to last through the next two generations of chip technology. Flash memory enables devices to retain memory and information without active power supply to the device.