Industry News

San Francisco State University is expanding in the East Bay, leasing 29,676-sf for its Oakland Multimedia Center. The facility will host multimedia training classes in the evenings and will serve as a conference center by day.

The Computer History Museum is planning a 41,000-sf facility near Mountain View in the NASA Research Park, a shared-used R&D campus proposed for Moffett Federal Airfield. Housing a large collection of computing artifacts, the Museum would open a temporary "Beta Building" in summer of 2002 with completion of the permanent facility slated for 2005.

Three-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals has relocated its corporate headquarters from Exton to 20,500-sf of office space in Lower Makefield, a site conveniently located between the firm's 40,000-sf research space in Exton and its newly-expanded 42,500-sf research facility in Cranbury, N.J. The biopharmaceutical company is also planning to convert 10,000 sf of its Exton site from office to laboratory space.

Eisai Inc. has added 24,148 sf to its 85,000 sf of manufacturing facilities in Research Triangle Park, providing space for research labs, offices, manufacturing, packing, locker rooms, a cafeteria and 130 parking spaces. The development also includes raw materials storage in an off-site warehouse. Eisai is the U.S. Pharmaceutical division of Esai Co. Ltd. of Japan and manufactures Aricept and Aciphex. Esai currently employs 130 people at the RTP facility.

Norak Bioscience Inc. is planning to triple the size of its facilities inResearch Triangle Park. Currently leasing 3,000 sf in RTP's BD Technologies Incubator, Norak's relocation anticipates adding up to 25 new employees and occupying 9,000 sf. Norak creates screening tools for drug discovery.