Industry News

Sarah Lawrence College has selected Daedalus Projects Inc. of Boston as construction project manager for the new 65,000-sf Heinbold Visual Arts Center in Bronxville, N.Y.

PharmaNet is tripling the size of its operations in Cary, North Carolina. The Princeton, N.J.-based contract research organization provides the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries with a comprehensive range of drug development and consulting services. Slated for September, the expansion of the Cary office will increase square footage from 6,600 to 19,000 and consolidate space on two floors of the Weston One to a larger facility on a single floor.

Harvard Medical School has completed a phased renovation of facilities for the Department of Cell Biology. Architectural Resources Cambridge, based in Cambridge, Mass., planned the project which includes biological research labs and facilities for video microscopy, micro-injection, tissue culture, and histology, as well as a frog research facility and high purity water treatment system. A frog breeding colony is accommodated in a new skylighted penthouse.

Unifi-Sans Technical Fibers intends to open a $25 million, 236,000-sf facility in Stoneville to manufacture high-tenacity nylon yarns. Unifi-Sans Technical Fibers is a joint venture of South Africa-based Sans Fibers and Unifi Inc. of Greensboro, N.C.

San Jose State University is collaborating with the city of San Jose to build the Martin Luther King Jr. Library. Located in downtown San Jose, the 475,000-sf, $177.5 million building will provide needed additional space for both the college and the city that neither could have funded independently. The city is providing $70 million of the cost of the eight-story building, with SJSU  supplying $5 million. $86 million will come from a California State University system capital project fund.