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San Diego State University has contracted Steinberg Group of Los Angeles to design a 2000-unit, 6,000-student sorority housing project. Located on 1.56-acres, Sorority Row will accompany SDSU's current fraternity housing project in an effort to decrease traffic congestion and increase parking inventory, as underground parking for the housing developments frees up spaces in SDSU parking garages. Construction is slated to begin in 2002 with occupancy estimated for the summer of 2004.

Dartmouth College has selected Cambridge, Mass.-based Bruner/Cott & Associates Inc. and Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners of Santa Monica, Calif., to plan and design a major expansion of their Hanover, N.H. campus. Slated for completion in 2004, the project features a new mathematics hall, a dining hall, and dormitory facilities for 500 to 600 students.

South Jersey Health System began construction in December 2001 on its new Regional Medical Center. The 238-bed, 405,000-sf hospital will house an enhanced emergency department, a Level II neonatal nursery, and specialized cardiac services. Each floor of the four-story hospital will focus on a different program. Services for mothers and babies will occupy the ground floor, with surgical patients on the second floor, medicine on the third and cardiology on the fourth. Rooms are all private and feature critical care monitoring technology.

The Employment Security Commission's new 7,500-sf office building in Mooresville will be constructed by Robert G. Snyder Contractors Inc. of Raleigh, as awarded by developer J.B. Harrison Properties LLC.

Ground was broken on Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center's $75 million Outpatient Comprehensive Cancer Center in October 2001. The 257,530-sf facility is slated for completion in summer of 2003.