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A new 83,000-sf building in Plymouth Meeting will house the consolidated offices of Mellon Financial Corporation. Mellon will house many of its Montgomery County offices in 50,000 sf of the facility which is currently under construction by a Fox Cos. affiliate. Approximately 230 employees will be housed in the new building, named Mellon Gateway Center.

A new hospital and parking garage will replace Kaiser Permanente's Vallejo Medical Center. As well as meeting new state earthquake standards, the facility will increase licensed bed space from 294 to 332 and add a 1,100 space parking garage. Ground will be broken on the parking garage in summer of 2001 and be completed in 2002. The hospital will be built between early 2004 and 2007.

The tenth University of California campus will be located in Merced, in the Central Valley of California. Design and construction of the 2,000-acre site will be managed in a joint venture of Parsons Brinckerhoff and The JCM Group. The campus will accommodate 25,000 graduate and undergraduate students at full build-out.

Sun Microsystems has signed a lease for 525,000 sf at Wilson/Equity Office's Foundry Square in San Francisco. The Palo Alto, Calif., computer manufacturing giant may lease an additional building at the Foundry site for a total of 3 buildings and 855,000 sf. Although space function has yet to be determined, such expansion could house up to 4,000 employees. Approval for a fourth building at the Foundry is pending for builder Wilson.

Deltagen Inc. is expanding its leased space by 45,000-sf. in Menlo Park, for a total of 95,000-sf. Adjacent to Deltagen's existing headquarters, the $7 million project will house scientists studying gene models.