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Merial Expands Operations in Georgia
Merial has plans to relocate and consolidate its five major U.S. animal health operations to several sites in Georgia. A suburb of Atlanta will be selected for the company's North American headquarters, where 400 employees will be housed. The company's Athens, Ga., manufacturing and research facility will accommodate an additional 80 relocated R&D employees. The University of Georgia will be the site of a planned pilot vaccine development facility, where Merial would manufacture both animal and human vaccines.
Siebel Systems Expands in San Mateo
Siebel Systems plans to relocate 750 administrative personnel to the 205,000-sf Concar project planned by Wilson/Equity Office in San Mateo. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2001, with move-in anticipated 18 months later. The fast-growing software company is in the process of occupying its new 450,000-sf headquarters at the Bridgepointe development 10 minutes' drive from the Concar site. Bridgepointe is a Sobrato Development project.
Intuit Expands in San Diego
Intuit has relocated two departments from its corporate regional headquarters in San Diego to 47,000 sf at the Bridge Point Corporate Center in the UTC area of San Diego. Ware & Malcomb, Architects, of San Diego, provided full service interior design services for the new space, which includes open office, closed office, a state-of-the art server lab, conference facilities, video tele-conferencing facilities, and collaborative break out areas. Intuit is the developer of innovative financial software, including Quicken and TurboTax.
PG&E Builds New Headquarters in Rockville
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) plans to build a new two-building headquarters at Rockville's Tower Oaks development for PG&E's National Energy Group, currently based in Bethesda, Md. PG&E will consolidate operations from Houston and Portland, Ore., at the new 480,000-sf headquarters which will accommodate up to 1,000 employees. The Tower Oaks is owned for the most part by The Tower Co's of North Bethesda, Md.
Star Media Network Builds New Headquarters
Star Media Network will consolidate three offices in late fall 2000 when the company occupies its new 136,000-sf headquarters in New York City. Site selection, interior design, and construction administration services have been provided by The Hillier Group's New York office. The new facility is a triangular-shaped, two-story loft space.