Industry News

Clear Channel Communications Inc. plans to break ground in the Stone Oak area on a 3-story, 120,000-sf facility that will house approximately 300 employees--the company’s IT personnel and the accounting division. The 26-acre site could accommodate up to three 120,000-sf buildings and a five-level parking structure. Clear Channel is working with Carter-Burgess on a master plan for its new campus.

Acterna’s new 310,000-sf complex at Milestone Business Park in Germantown now has a second building under construction—a 130,000-sf structure designed by Hickok Warner Fox Architects to house office and manufacturing functions. Turner Construction is the builder. The first building is a 180,000-sf headquarters, which is also under construction. The 44-acre site provides space for 680,000 sf of office/industrial construction.

Plans recently completed for a new 23,000-sf central plant at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are now under review by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development in Sacramento. Providing 10 megawatts of emergency power and 6,000 tons of chilled water, the underground plant will be added to the existing 4,500-ton electrical plant and will work in conjunction with it. Beginning construction in October and slated for completion in April 2003, the project is estimated to cost $22 million.

Cingular Wireless intends to build a data center on land the company purchased in Alpharetta. Slated for completion in the first quarter of 2002, the facility will be developed by Holder Properties.

City approval has been granted to FedEx Corp. to build a new San Francisco distribution center. The 110,000-sf facility will serve 80 routes and house 100 relocated workers in addition to 65 new hires. The center is slated for completion in 2002.