Industry News

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.

Boston Internet City, a 450,000-sf telecommunications facility in Brighton, is nearing completion. Occupancy of the $55 million project is expected by summer, with tenant improvements starting as early as mid-February. Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, based in Boston, is developing the project.

Teraspace Networks has plans to provide co-location space for major voice and data carriers with a 500,000-sf data center in Austin that Teraspace will help finance, build and operate. The Austin data center will be one of seven $20 million facilities the company plans to develop. Construction is already under way on a 1.1 million-sf data facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to be followed in late 2001 by one in Austin and one in Houston. No dates have yet been set for centers in Phoenix and Denver.

Qwest Communications International Inc. expected to begin construction in December 2000 on a 157,000-sf data center at the Met Center business park near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Completion of the shell is anticipated in summer 2001, at which point Qwest will finish out the facility for occupancy in late 2001.