Industry News

Nortel Networks has finished renovating its 76,000-sf office and R&D facility in Andover. The $1.7 million project was carried out by Spaulding & Slye Colliers of Boston.

Fox Chase Cancer Center has plans for two new centralized scientific facilities to study genomics and bioinformatics. Grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts of Philadelphia and the Rippel Foundation of New Jersey will help to fund the projects.

Wyeth Ayerst Laboratories has a new $20 million, 50,000-sf facility for biological production and research in Marietta. The company is also building a manufacturing facility in Puerto Rico. The construction manager for both projects is Barclay White Inc. of Philadelphia.

De Lange Landen Financial Services, a subsidiary of Rabobank of the Netherlands, has completed construction on phase one of its new corporate headquarters in Wayne. The company, currently located in Berwyn, expects to finish the $35 million project in fall 2000.

Johnson Controls broke ground in December 1999 on a new six-building manufacturing campus on 64 acres at the Parque Industrial Colonial in Reynosa. San Antonio-based 3D/International will design and manage construction of the fast-track project, with the first phase--an 180,000-sf facility--scheduled for completion by mid-June 2000.

Construction of phase two will result in three buildings ranging from 150,000 sf to 180,000 sf. Phase three will include one or two more buildings. The anticipated completion for the entire project--encompassing approximately 1 million sf--is 2003.