Industry News

Media Arts Group has plans for a new four-building campus on 22.71 acres at the proposed 80-acre Madrone Business Park in Morgan Hill. A total of 302,798 sf is planned for the Media Arts site. The first two buildings will be a corporate office building (61,437 sf) and a production facility (155,353 sf). The developer, TBI-Mission West LLC, expects to start construction soon. Media Arts is the production and administrative division of Thomas Kinkade Galleries.

Applied Computer Solutions has awarded the contract for the design/renovation of its new 65,000-sf building to Ware & Malcomb Architects of Irvine, Calif. The company will provide architectural and interior design services including the renovation of the exterior of the building and site, parking lot, front entrance facade addition, and interior renovation. The project also includes the redesign of parking lot lighting, ADA site accessibility, landscaping and hardscaping.

TTC will build a new two-building corporate campus totaling 280,000 sf in Germantown. The facility for the high-tech company, which currently employs approximately 700 locally, is scheduled to begin construction in early 2001, with occupancy in mid-2002. A third 125,000 sf to 150,000 sf building is in the works for 2003, with an option for two additional structures by 2009 for a total of 700,000 sf at the site. TTC expects employee growth to total approximately 1,500 in the next eight years.

The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a defense contractor, has plans to consolidate its operations in 222,159 sf at a build-to-suit in Alexandria's Mark Center. IDA currentlly occupies two buildings at the site. The new 260,000-sf building, slated for completion in February 2002, was designed by Davis Carter Scott and is being developed by Mark Winkler Co.

Asyst Technologies has plans for a build-to-suit $90 million, 350,000-sf multiple-building headquarters at a 27-acre site in Fremont. Asyst will consolidate its 1000 employees, now housed in six different offices, at the Warm Springs Corporate Center, where the first phase of construction is scheduled to begin in fall 2000. The first building is slated for completion in fall 2001. One 180,000-sf building will accommodate manufacturing. The site provides for future expansion of up to 600,000 sf of space. Trumark Commercial LLC is the developer.