Industry News

San Diego State University's (SDSU) Aztec Athletic Center and Hall of Fame was topped out in April by San Diego-based Nielsen Dillingham Builders. Completion of the project is anticipated by summer of 2001. Built on an existing 184,000-sf SDSU site, the $13.67 million project is being funded by donations from the owner of the San Diego Padres. The center will house administration, coaches' offices, a central utility plant, academic, support, and media relations facilities, as well as locker and weight rooms.

Teleglobe is relocating its corporate headquarters from Montreal to Reston, adding 200 personnel to its 800-person staff base in Northern Virginia.  As part of a plan to build data centers around the country, Teleglobe is planning an 126,000-sf facility in D.C. as well as searching for a site to lease on the Dulles Corridor in the "Silicon Valley of telecommunications".

Cambridge-based pharmaceutical company Alkermes, Inc., has leased 91,000-sf in Chelsea at Brickyard Square Biotech Park to house its subsidiary, Advanced Inhalation Research. The space features 28-foot high ceilings conducive to manufacturing. Alkermes will invest more than $25 million in the structure.

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Wipro Technologies is planning a 30-acre campus in Hyderabad, India. As a part of Wipro Ltd., a Bangalore-based IT services provider, the software development center will house 3,000 software professionals. Wipro currently employs over 1500 workers in their existing Hyderabad facility.

The Triangle Biotechnology Center, a new 17,000-sf laboratory facility, is being developed in Durham by Andrew Rothschild. The wet lab space, housed in the historic Clark & Sorrel Building, will contain suites for offices and labs as small as 1,600 sf.