Industry News

Heald College consolidated two Contra Costa County locations into a new 66,000-sf Concord campus. The 32-classroom facility opened in February and features a fiber optic data communications network for improved Internet access, as well as some wireless technologies. The campus provides classroom space for 1400 students, a center for faculty and staff, and a cafeteria. Heald also opened a new 58,000-sf Hayward, Calif., campus in summer of 2000.

University of California Davis is developing a new Center for the Arts. Slated for completion in fall of 2002, the facility will house an 1,800-seat performance hall, a studio theater, and a 30,000-sf museum.

Meredith College, the largest women's college in the Southeast, is planning a new math and science building. The 80,000-sf facility will be designed and built by women-owned companies. Atlanta-based architect BJLAS Architecture will be teaming its affiliated Raleigh office with general contractor Rodgers Construction of Charlotte, N.C.

Southwest Texas State University is breaking ground on a new $42 million, 240,000-sf academic facility this week. The university's Art and Design, and Technology and Physics departments will be housed in the extension. Completion is estimated for 2003.

Investigen is relocating from tighter quarters at the former Alameda Naval Air Station to the North Shore Business Park in Hercules at the end of 2001. The East Bay biotech firm will occupy 8,000 sf of the planned 27,500-sf space in December. Providing lab and office space, the new facility features a non-academic design with large windows and views of San Francisco Bay. The facility will host biotech research related to Investigen's pathogen detection test, water testing, and detection of genetically modified viruses and organisms.