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Star Media Network Builds New Headquarters
Star Media Network will consolidate three offices in late fall 2000 when the company occupies its new 136,000-sf headquarters in New York City. Site selection, interior design, and construction administration services have been provided by The Hillier Group's New York office. The new facility is a triangular-shaped, two-story loft space.
Infomart Builds Telecom Hotel
Infomart LLC of Dallas, in partnership with Nexcomm Capital Partners of Southport, Conn., will transform a 400,000-sf former cold-storage warehouse in Watertown into a telecom hotel for high-tech firms. The building provides a number of features required for telecommunications equipment: heavy floor capacity, high ceilings, proximity to fiber-optic networks. Renovations totaling $20 million are scheduled to start in August 2000 and be completed by late fall 2000.
Nokia Redesigns San Diego Facility
Nokia’s 135,000-sf facility in San Diego’s Scripps Northridge Corporate Center has a new space plan and design for tenant improvements, thanks to the work of Austin Veum Robbins Parshalle of San Diego, in association with Divan+Studio.The shell and core of the new facility, completed in September 2000, was designed by a collaboration of Davis & Davis Architecture and McGraw/Baldwin Architects. The general contractor is Hensel Phelps Construction Co. Interiors for the project were done by DPR Construction.
SAP AG Expands Newton Square Campus
SAP AG, the German producer of business software, plans to expand its American operations headquarters at its Newtown Square campus. Construction of 700,000 sf of office space will include three centers: the SAP Global Solutions Center, the SAP Institute for Innovation and Development, and the SAP Partner E-Business Center. Currently, 1,500 people are employed at the site; the expansion will accommodate an additional 600 staff. Completion is anticipated in late 2002.
Johns Hopkins Dedicates Academic/Research Facility
Johns Hopkins University recently dedicated the new 50,000-gsf Academic and Research Building for its Montgomery County campus at the Shady Grove Life Sciences Center in Rockville. The three-story structure features state-of-the-art research and education facilities: four computer labs; 22 "smart" classrooms configured for video conferencing, multimedia presentations, and high-speed transmission of large databases; a coffee house; a bookstore; and student meeting spaces.