Industry News

BudCo. of San Antonio Ltd. has plans for a new headquarters and warehouse facility on a 40-acre site in southwest San Antonio. Scheduled groundbreaking is for mid-January, with completion by October or November 2001. Hollerman Duitsman Architects of Saint Louis designed the facility, which will accommodate 98,000 sf of office space and 190,000 sf of distribution space. The project manager is James Pritchard & Associates; the general contractor is Hooker Contracting Co. Inc. of San Antonio.

Britannia Corporate Center, a six-building, 296,400-sf distribution/manufacturing project being developed by Master Development Corporation, will be designed by Ware & Malcomb Architects of San Diego. The project site encompasses 15.9 acres in South San Diego County. The buildings will range in size from 25,000 to 84,000 sf.

American Nevada Corp. is working with general contractor McCarthy's Las Vegas office for the construction of two office buildings on 8 acres at the company's Green Valley Corporate Center. Tilt-up construction is being used for the $4.3 million project to complete the buildings by April 2001. The 45,000-sf structures will feature finished lobbies, high performace reflective glass, and aluminum clad exterior balconies. McCarthy is also constructing surface parking at the site. The project architect is Howard F. Thompson Architects of Irvine, Calif.

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), pressured by California's high real estate prices, is expanding instead in Charlotte, rather than in Palo Alto, Calif., where the institute is headquartered. The new $5 million building will be constructed at the 10-acre site where EPRI's current 102,000-sf operations are located. The new 50,000-sf structure will accommodate traditional office functions, freeing up space in the existing building for more research and laboratories.

Calibre Systems has selected Dietze Construction Group to complete the interior build-out of its new 80,000-sf office. The Smith Group designed the office for the defense contractor, which is scheduled for completion in spring 2001. The facility will be part of Metro Park in Alexandria, a 1 million-sf office park of five-, six-, and 10-story office buildings being developed by Fried Cos.