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The Jackson Laboratory is working with Boston-based Einhorn Yaffee Prescott in the design of a new Genetics Resource Building. In addition, the East Research Building will be expanded by 55,000 sf to accommodate offices, research labs, conference rooms, and support space.

 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.

Florida State University (FSU) has selected HOK Florida to design the expansion and renovation of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. The Ringling Museum is the largest university museum in the nation. The proposed $44 million project will expand the complex to include a new Visitor Center and Interactive Art Education Facility. An adjunct to the existing Museum will include new art exhibiition galleries as well as a new Art Collection, Library and Archives Facility.

Ground was recently broken on the Koret Comparative Genomics Laboratory at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Made possible by a $1 million Koret Foundation grant, the lab is slated to open in 2002. Research subjects will inlcude genetically related pet disorders such as canine heart problems and feline cancers, eye disorders and head defects.