Industry News

 Integrated Laboratory Services, based in Raleigh, N.C., plans to occupy a 77,395-sf R&D and office facility'Tech 15'under construction at Keystone Park. The $7-million building is scheduled for completion in March 2002. Ten more buildings are planned for the Park, with construction of the second building scheduled to begin late in summer 2002. Keystone Corp. is the developer of the $65-million project, which is scheduled for completion in 2004.

The Port of Technology, part of Philadelphia’s University City Science Center life sciences and technology incubator, opened six new state-of-the-art wet labs in early December. Shared equipment in the furnished lab facility includes offices, an ultracentrifuge, an autoclave, and a film developer.

Visa International will add a fourth building at its 8.5-acre campus in Foster City. Construction is expected to begin in spring 2002 on the six-story, 199,404-sf building. Swinerton Builders built the first of Visa's three buildings, and is thought to have been selected as contractor for the new project.

 TherImmune is expanding near its headquarters in Gaithersburg. The company will move its lab services division into a 14,000-sf facility down the street in March 2002, and corporate offices will occupy 8,000 sf across the street, for a total of 90,000 sf occupied by TherImmune in Gaithersburg. TherImmune handles contract research and tests drugs for pharmaceutical and bioscience companies.

Lucasfilm Ltd., based in San Rafael, Calif., is converting the former Letterman Hospital at San Francisco’s historic Presidio to a new 900,000-sf digital arts campus. Demolition by Webcor Builders at the 23-acre site began in early December 2001. Design is under way for the new facility, with George Lucas leading the design team. Gensler Architecture is consulting on the project. San Francisco-based Robinson Mills Williams will provide tenant improvements. Larry Halpern is the landscape specialist.