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Industry News
Cisco Systems Pursues New Dublin Campus
Cisco Systems, based in San Jose, Calif., is preparing to go through the design review process for its planned five-building high-tech campus in Dublin. Economic factors, which had caused the company to reassess its plans in March, apparently will not halt the project. Opus West Corp. is the builder for 220,000 sf in two of the structures, the first of which is scheduled for completion in September 001, the second in early 2002.
Trellis Photonics Plans Manufacturing Facility
Trellis Photonics, based in Israel, has plans for a 60,000-sf manufacturing facility at the Columbia Gateway Business Park. The $18 million building will accommodate the fiber-optics firm's research, administration, and manufacturing operations. The company's $25 million, five-year growth plan includes a staff increase from the present 150 employees to 350.
New Telecom Center Opens in Atlanta
The Atlanta Telecom Center, a multimillion-dollar project of Montreal-based Yale GSG Lee Real Estate Ltd., has opened in Atlanta's West End. Yale Provided site selection, financing, design, and engineering to convert the former Alterman Foods Inc. warehouse to a telecom hotel. Upgrades include a new roof, multiple fiber entrances to the structure, and distribution throughout the building of that fiber. Nearby fiber-optic trunk lines have attracted telecommunications companies to the area.
Meredith College Builds Collaborative Science Building
Meredith College has a new $20-million, 80,000-sf collaborative science building under construction. Designed by BJLAS Architecture and built by Rogers Builders of Charlotte, N.C., the facility will promote interaction by bringing together the various science subspecialties, rather than isolating them by floor. The most expensive lab space—that used by the departments of chemistry and biology—will be grouped together. Four to six students will work together at lab ‘islands’. Small group study alcoves will be located throughout the structure.
EOS Relocates and Expands San Francisco Operations
EOS, a private genomic research company, will relocate from its 31,000-sf space in South San Francisco, to a 82,000-sf building at Slough Estates USA’s $250-million development at Oyster Point. Construction of the facility is scheduled to begin in summer 2001.