Industry News

Notre Dame High School is building Manley Hall, a $14 million, 34,000-sf facility with fiber-optic technology housing physics, chemistry, biology and computer labs, classrooms, administrative space, and a library. Located in downtown San Jose, the all-female college-preparatory high school has selected general contractor Blach Construction of Santa Clara, Ca., and architects Anderson-Brule of San Jose. The building is slated for completion by 2002.  

Genzyme Corp. intends to build a recombinant protein manufacturing plant in Framingham, Ma. The 300,000-sf facility is estimated to be running by 2004. In Waterford, Ireland, Genzyme has purchased a 120,000-sf plant for manufacturing Renagel, with a multiproduct manufacturing facility planned nearby.

KLA-Tencor has put occupation of its new Livermore campus on hold until the end of the year. The San Jose-based semiconductor firm purchased 43 acres in the Shea Business Park in May 2000 for a 720,000-sf, six-building campus. Construction on the two buildings to house manufacturing and customer service will continue; totaling 120,000-sf, the facilities are nearing completion.

Hybrigen Inc., a Dallas drug-targeting company, doubled its biotechnology facility's space to 8,000-sf in May. Hybrigen is one of several biotech-related companies located in Dallas' Stemmons Corridor area.

Bayer Diagnostic, a separate entity within the German pharmaceutical firm, is negotiating occupation of 70,000 sf in a yet-to-be built biotech laboratory and office building in Berkeley. The two-story facility, slated for completion in mid-2002, will be developed by Wareham Development of San Rafael, Ca. HKA Architects has been selected for the exterior drawings, with Darrell de Tienne providing conceptual design.