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SUNY at New Paltz Expands Student Housing
The State University of New York at New Paltz is expanding its residential accommodations for students. The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York awarded STV Architects of Douglassville, Pa., two contracts for the first newly designed and constructed housing to be built at the campus in 30 years. The first of these dormitories is currently in construction and STV will design a new 200+ bed residence hall to sit adjacent to it on the same site. The 62,000-sf, four-story facility is designed with three-person units, with two rooms in each unit.
McGill University Healthcare Plans Huge Campus for Consolidated Hospitals
McGill University Health Centre has selected Boston-based Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott (SBRA) architects working with Kurt Salmon Associates Health Care (Atlanta, Ga.) and Montreal architect Jodoin Lamarre et Pratte to complete a Strategic, Master and Functional Programming initiative to move five merged (1997) hospitals into one integrated healthcare campus, creating one of the largest hospital consolidations in North America.
Motorola Plans Consolidation in Suwanee
Motorola Inc. has plans to consolidate six of its Atlanta-area operations at a new corporate campus on 111 acres in Suwanee. Present plans include two six-story office structures and a 660,000-sf office warehouse. The campus is expected to accommodate as many as 3,500 employees when the consolidation is complete.
Industrial Light & Magic Builds at the Presidio
Industrial Light and Magic, the special-effects division of Lucasfilm, Ltd., will have a new home on 23 acres at San Francisco's historic Presidio. Site preparation, including demolition of the 10-story Letterman hospital, began in February 2001. The 900,000-sf campus will include offices, a 7-acre meadow, a restaurant, and a five-columned "folly" modeled on the Panama Pacific International Exposition. Approximately 2,500 employees and 1,500 vehicles will be accommodated at the complex.
Clear Channel Plans Consolidation
Clear Channel Communications Inc. is scouting the Stone Oak area with plans for a new approximately 360,000-sf building to consolidate several of its San Antonio departments. This is in addition to the company's 50,000-sf headquarters in Lincoln Heights, occupied in May 2000. Construction of the new facility--to be built in phases--is anticipated in summer 2001.