Industry News

Western Michigan University is building a 50,000-sf Paper Technology Pilot Plant at its new Business-Technology-Research Park. Scheduled for completion in December 2001,  it will be the first in a series of new buildings that will comprise the new College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Complex. Architect for the pilot plant is HarleyEllis, with design consultant Rosetti Architects of Birmingham, Mich.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s plans for a new five-building campus in Alexandria’s Carlyle development have been approved, and construction is slated to begin by year’s end. The 2.3 million-sf project will be developed by LCOR, with Turner Construction as the general contractor. The complex will accommodate 7,100 employees. Completion is expected early in 2005.

AOL is planning a 400,000-sf expansion on its 100-acre Loudon County campus in Dulles, Virginia.

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.