Industry News

 Ave Maria College's new 328,000-sf campus will be located within the Domino's Farms office complex in Ann Arbor. HarleyEllis of Detroit has completed schematic design for the campus, which will include a 176,000-sf, five-story Academic Building with classrooms, labs, exercise facilities, offices, and library; a 9,000-sf chapel; a 22,000-sf commons building; and 121,000-sf for student housing--four buildings that will accommodate 295 students.

 Harvard Medical School broke ground in February 2001 on a new $250 million collaborative biomedical research facility designed by Architectural Resources Cambridge.  The 430,000-gsf facility will be shared by Harvard Medical School basic science departments and collaborative tenants from Harvard’s affiliate institutions. To enhance interdisciplinary research, the facility has been designed with faculty members doing related work in adjacent labs and sharing core facilities.

 The University of Connecticut’s ocean-front Avery Point campus on Long Island Sound recently dedicated the University’s new Marine Sciences building. The 140,000-sf structure, designed by The S/L/A/M Collaborative of Glastonbury, Conn., contains research and teaching labs (including four “clean” chemistry labs), support facilities, offices, conference and seminar spaces, saltwater fluid dynamics labs, computer labs, and classrooms.

Maryland Science and Technology Center, a $60 million, 14-building complex, expects to complete Phase I of construction—a total of 120,000 sf of space in one office building and two flex and R&D buildings—by February 2002. The buildings were designed by Robert T. Hoffman. Phase II construction will create four flex and R&D facilities. MEI Properties is the developer of the project at the 466-acre office park.

Dow Chemical Co., based in Midland, Mich., is planning to transform a 55,000-sf facility previously occupied by Collaborative Group Ltd.’s Biotechnology Services Division into a large-molecule drugs contract manufacturing plant to serve the biotech industry. The facility will have a 50,000-liter capacity. World-wide, the capacity to produce large-molecule drugs stands at about 380,000 liters, with a critical shortage of capacity anticipated by 2005.