Industry News

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s plans for a new five-building campus in Alexandria’s Carlyle development have been approved, and construction is slated to begin by year’s end. The 2.3 million-sf project will be developed by LCOR, with Turner Construction as the general contractor. The complex will accommodate 7,100 employees. Completion is expected early in 2005.

AOL is planning a 400,000-sf expansion on its 100-acre Loudon County campus in Dulles, Virginia.

Clear Channel Communications Inc. plans to break ground in the Stone Oak area on a 3-story, 120,000-sf facility that will house approximately 300 employees--the company’s IT personnel and the accounting division. The 26-acre site could accommodate up to three 120,000-sf buildings and a five-level parking structure. Clear Channel is working with Carter-Burgess on a master plan for its new campus.

Acterna’s new 310,000-sf complex at Milestone Business Park in Germantown now has a second building under construction—a 130,000-sf structure designed by Hickok Warner Fox Architects to house office and manufacturing functions. Turner Construction is the builder. The first building is a 180,000-sf headquarters, which is also under construction. The 44-acre site provides space for 680,000 sf of office/industrial construction.

ADCS Inc., a hi-tech company specializing in data/document capture and conversion, has contracted Smith Consulting Architects for architecture and interior design of a 94,000-sf, two-story office building in the Parwkay Business Center in Poway. Construction of the $7.9 million project is scheduled to begin in November with completion expected in March 2002. The building will feature a photovoltaic solar collection as part of its state-of-the-art energy saving system.