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Opex Pharmaceuticals To Build Houston Manufacturing Facility
Opexa Pharmaceuticals has selected PageSoutherlandPage Architects, Engineers, and Consultants of Houston to provide architecture, engineering, commissioning, and validation support services for Opexa’s new manufacturing facility. The 27,000-sf structure will include corporate offices and a new production facility to manufacture pharmaceuticals for autoimmune diseases, focusing on multiple sclerosis.
Sybase Occupies New Dublin Headquarters
Sybase, the e-business software and database maker, has relocated 1,000 employees from Emeryville, Calif., to its new 406,000-sf headquarters in Dublin. Wilcox Development Services developed the two-buildings, which are connected by a bridge. Administrative staff is housed in one building; engineering staff, a day care center and fitness center are housed in the other. The day care center, scheduled to open in March, will accommodate up to 52 children, whose parents can watch them via a Web cam.
Vanguard Completes Malvern Campus
Vanguard Group has completed construction of three 120,000-sf buildings on a 300-acre site in Malvern. The mutual fund giant is also initiating premliminary work on a 250-acre, 2.5 million-sf campus which may enter the first phase of construction in spring of 2002. The multiphase project would begin with the development of two 320,000-sf facilities on 70 acres.
Peoplesoft Plans Pleasanton Expansion
Peoplesoft has proposed expanding its Pleasanton operations with a new 181,000-sf office facility adjacent to its existing 815,000-sf complex in the Hacienda Business Park. Housing 800 employees, the project is slated for completion in fall of 2003 . The $30-million, five-story building is part of Peoplesofts' approved 534,000-sf expansion plan which will total 1.4 million sf upon completion. Peoplesoft hopes to consolidate other leased space and relocate employees to its headquarters which currently houses 2,300 workers.
Allstate To Occupy New Twin Oaks Building
Allstate Corp. of Northbrook, Ill., will lease 50,030 sf of the new Two Twin Oaks facility planned by real estate developer Koontz McCombs LLC. Located in the Twin Oaks Office Park in North Central San Antonio, the 70,000-sf building will contain 67,000 nsf of rental space.