Industry News

Multek Inc. plans to build a state-of-the-art printed circuit board plant in Austin. The company is seeking a 50-acre site for the manufacturing center that would employ as many as 1,800 people when it opens in mid- to late 2002. Multek is consulting with Endeavor Real Estate Group of Austin on the development of the project.

Mayville Metal Products, based in Creedmor, N.C., is seeking an Austin site to build a 80,000-sf integration center, including a 10,000-sf cleanroom, for the semiconductor industry. Mayville will integrate the 300mm (12-inch) wafer at the new site. The company will close its 30,000-sf logistics center in southeast Austin.

The Yamacraw Design Center, the facility that will house Georgia's initiative for technology economic development in broadband telecommunications, is being developed in Midtown Atlanta. The building will include institutional and commercial design technology demonstration studios; prototypes of labs for applied R&D; and incubator and industry representative office space for member companies. Lord, Aeck & Sargent of Atlanta is the architect for the project.

CyberPlex @ Dulles, a new $72 million, 400,000-sf data center, is expected to break ground in April 2001 on a 29-acre site in Loudoun County. Completion of the project is anticipated by late fall. The developer is DataCentersNow, a subsidiary of Beco Management based in Rockville, Md. The company has already built one facility in Sterling -- the 55,000-sf CyberFortress I -- and is building CyberFortress II, a 110,000-sf data center, in Manassas, Va.

J. David Gladstone Institutes, a nonprofit medical research center based in San Francisco, plans to expand at Mission Bay with a 180,000-sf biotech research park. The Institutes, whose operations are currently scattered in offices and labs at the campus of the University of California San Francisco, plans to increase its staff of researchers from 260 to 520 by the end of 2010. The new facility will cost $100 million, including the cost of the approximately five-acre site the Institutes plans to purchase. NBBJ Architects is designing the building.