Industry News

American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM) is planning to expand its headquarters on Independence Mall in Center City Philadelphia. ACP-ASIM will build a new 150,000-sf, $37 million headquarters adjacent to its existing facility to accommodate its expanding programs and staff. Philadelphia-based Ballinger, architects and engineers, will link the new nine-story structure to the existing building at every floor through a glass-enclosed connector.

Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc. has plans to relocate from San Francisco to a 285,000-sf, six-story office building in Mission Bay being developed by Catellus Development Corp. Pending final city approval of the building, groundbreaking could take place in late 2000 or early 2001, with completion planned for summer of 2002. Genesys, a subsidiary of the French firm Alcatel, provides call center software.

Internet Center @ TeleCom City, a $15 million telecommunications project approved by the Mystic Valley Development Commission in late May, will create a state-of-the-art facility in TeleCom City Park where General Electric once built tanks during World War II. Demolition of the existing structure in June will give way to a two-story, 260,000-sf structure, 100,000 sf of which is scheduled for completion by year's end. The building will be subdividable into 30,000-sf areas, and will be wired with fiber-optic lines.

Piazza Del Corleone, a $100-million to $125-million telecommunications facility, is slated to break ground in July in San Francisco. Two three-story buildings are planned, with completion of the building shells by December 2000. San Jose-based Habitec Architecture and Planning is designing the 324,000-sf to 500,00-sf project. Special features include water-tight rooms, link redundancy, multiple fiber-optic cables, reinforced floors, space for back-up power, on-site round-the-clock security, and seismic reinforcements to hospital-level standards.

Electroglas Inc. has relocated its Santa Clara, Calif., manufacturing and engineering operations to a new $40 million, 263,000-sf headquarters in Edenvale. San Jose-based Kenneth Rodrigues & Partners Inc. designed the new facility which will house almost 100 Electroglas employees. Builder for the project was Devcon Construction Inc. of Milpitas, Calif. The 22-acre site has room to accommodate an additional 100,000-sf building. Electroglas manufactures capital equipment for the semiconductor industry.