Industry News

Investigen is relocating from tighter quarters at the former Alameda Naval Air Station to the North Shore Business Park in Hercules at the end of 2001. The East Bay biotech firm will occupy 8,000 sf of the planned 27,500-sf space in December. Providing lab and office space, the new facility features a non-academic design with large windows and views of San Francisco Bay. The facility will host biotech research related to Investigen's pathogen detection test, water testing, and detection of genetically modified viruses and organisms.

The University of Washington broke ground on a new $80-million law school building—the William H. Gates Hall—in May 2001. Construction of the 196,000-sf four-story building will begin in September 2001 and is slated for completion in summer of 2003. The facility will include a 10,000-sf reading room with stacks occupying approximately 40,000 sf. The building will also feature a 170-person classroom equipped as a trial court, law clinics, seminar rooms, additional instructional areas, as well as offices for staff, faculty, and graduate students.

The U.S. Army has granted $2.5 million to an Emory University scientist to for a new prostate cancer research center. Funded by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command's Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP), the new facility will study the causes and behavior of prostate cancer in the body.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is developing the new Sam and Ann Barshop Center for Longevity and Aging Studies. The Barshops donated $4 million to the Texas Research Park facility, which will provide laboratory space for scientists.

Radiant Photonics (formerly Radiant Research) has opened its new 35,000-sf headquarters in Northeast Austin. The fiber optics components manufacturer's new site includes facilities for pilot manufacturing and a cleanroom.