Industry News

MassTech Center LLC is a proposing to build a 3.7-million sf technology office park in Eastern Massachusetts at the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station. If approved by the South Shore Tri-Town Development Corp., the Hingham, Mass.-based company would proceed with a staged development of the project over an eight to ten-year period.

Zygo TeraOptix Inc., based in Holliston, Mass., has a $9 million renovation and expansion under way in Westborough at a newly purchased 87,000-sf facility. A 33,500 sf expansion will create a new floor within one section of the structure that has 50-ft-high ceilings, bringing the total space available to 120,000 sf. Employees will begin occupying approximately 30,000 sf of the building in December 2000, while renovations to the electrical and HVAC systems are ongoing.

Loudon Tech Center is a new $10 million, 25,000-sf data center under development in Sterling by Colo.com. The company, based in California's Silicon Valley, is focussing on much smaller data centers than are currently being built, offering speed to market, customer service, and security as benefits of the smaller facilities. Colo.com opened a similar data center in Vienna, Va., in early 2000.

Associates of Cape Cod Inc. (ACCI) is building a new 79,000-sf FDA-validated production facility for diagnostics in the Falmouth Technology Park. ACCI manufactures endotoxin diagnostic assays extracted from the blood of horseshoe crabs. Laboratories will feature state-of-the-art technology. The cleanroom production areas include Class 100 formulation and filling suites, accessible through airlocks. The production process and facilities will be fully validated in accordance with FDA cGMP requirements.

WorldCom has completed Phase II construction at its two-story switch facility in Charlton, providing an additional 24,000 sf of technical space. The work was carried out by Boston-based Tishman Construction Corp. of Massachusetts; design/build services were performed by its affiliate, Tishman Technologies Corp.