Industry News

Arizona State Civil and Behavioral Health Hospital has selected McCarthy Building Companies Inc. to lead the design-build team for its $34.5 million hospital and adolescent behavioral facility in Phoenix. With design development underway, the project is scheduled to break ground in August with completion targeted for fall 2002. The 200,000-sf juvenile complex will be finished first.

Community Medical Center in Fresno broke ground on its new Regional Medical Center on April 5th, 2001. The six-level, 340,000-sf trauma/critical care building is the centerpiece of a $250 million, multi-phase redevelopment plan designed by RTKL Associates Inc. unifying several medical institutions on a 58-acre urban medical campus. Ratcliff, architects and interior designers of Emeryville, Ca., served as the associate architect.

GPC Biotech Inc. has relocated its Boston operations formerly based in Cambridge to 84,000 sf in Waltham. The facility will house the expansion of GPC's technology platform and nine internal drug discovery programs.  

Pharmanetics Inc. recently moved into its new Morrisville office, a facility designed to create an egalitarian workplace and enhance workflow. The coagulation equipment maker wanted an adaptable space lending itself to work teams, group projects, and open communication. Based on a study conducted by Storr Office Environment, seating arrangements are based on work process with all cubicles the same size and layout, and no private offices.

Oracle Corp. has begun grading its Stanford Ranch site in preparation for construction of a second office building in Rocklin. Located in south Placer County, the 12,000-sf, 680-person data services facility will consolidate operations for the software giant when it opens next spring.