Industry News

Nortel Networks is working with Koll Corporate Development and McCarthy Building Companies to construct Phase III of the Nortel Networks Galatyn Park campus. The $35-million expansion will add 296,000 sf of office space and two parking structures to the existing 500,000-sf campus. The fast-track project includes a seven-story office building and two, four-level parking structures for up to 1,600 cars, a credit union, company story, and cafeteria. At completion in March 2001, approximately 1,400 employees will be located in the new facility.

The National Institutes of Health Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center, which broke ground in February 1999, opened in late August 2000. Spaulding & Slye was the developer of the fast-track $32-million, 82,500-sf facility, where researchers in immunology, virology, and HIV will work together toward developing an AIDs vaccine by 2007. The 10-story structure features laboratories, a high-tech education and conference center, cyber café, support spaces, and offices for principal investigators. For flexibility, an open lab plan with 11’ x 13’ space planning modules was chosen.

1838 Investment Advisors, a financial services subsidiary of MBIA, has plans for a new 39,000-sf facility at Renaissance Corsair in the Renaissance Corporate Center in Gulph Mills on a former Superfund site. O’Neill Properties is developing the project in three phases, the first phase breaking ground in late 2000, with completion in August 2001. When complete, the Renaissance Corsair project will provide 400,000 sf in three buildings.

Tokyo Electron America has received approval in September to construct a new 70,700-sf office building at their corporate campus in East Austin. The new structure will connect with the company’s existing 77,864-sf facility, and will provide additional space to accommodate increased staff. The company, which manufactures semiconductor equipment, has been working with the engineer consulting firm Baker-Aicklen & Associates.

Concordia University recently broke ground on the Walter and Maxine Christopher Center for Learning and Leadership, a 83,000-sf three-story structure designed by Holabird & Root of Chicago. The center will provide a setting for modeling ideal teaching environments and promoting the highest standards of quality care for young children.