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Saginaw Valley State University Builds Regional Education Center
Saginaw Valley State University broke ground in October on a $30-million Regional Education Center. The 130,000-sf facility will serve the University’s faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, and K-12 educators and scholars. The Center houses 24 classrooms, two computer labs, a 250-seat capacity multi-media auditorium, 65 faculty offices, a student lounge, cyber café, and study areas. HarleyEllis, of Detroit, Mich., provided architecture, engineering, and planning services for the project. Spence Brothers of Saginaw, Mich., is the Construction Manager.
Alkermes Expands in Cambridge
Biotech company Alkermes, partnering with pharmaceutical companies to develop their drugs, is expanding in Cambridge with 150,000 sf dedicated to new labs and offices. A 90,000-sf manufacturing facility is being renovated in Chelsea, Mass., by Alkermes for the production of GlaxoSmithKline’s inhalable insulin, and a new plant to manufacture a drug for Johnson & Johnson is being built in Wilmington, Ohio.
Computer History Museum To Build in NASA Research Park
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 Relocates Headquarters
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 Expands RTP Facility
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.