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The University of Arizona is planning to build the $136 million Biosciences Partnership Building in Phoenix. Supporting collaborative research, the 10-story, 245,000-sf facility will be located adjacent to the university’s new cancer center currently under construction on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. Construction will begin by year-end 2014 with completion expected in early 2017.

Morgan State University is building the $80 million Earl G. Graves Sr. School of Business and Management in Baltimore. The 140,000-sf facility will include classrooms, a lecture hall, a trading floor, a teaching kitchen, and 10 hotel-style rooms. Occupancy is expected by fall of 2015.

Middlesex Hospital opened the $28 million Shoreline Medical Center in late April of 2014 in Westbrook, Conn. Designed by The S/L/A/M Collaborative, the 75,000-sf  freestanding facility features a 24-bed emergency department, expanded radiology services with dedicated women’s imaging, a technology-rich laboratory, and an infusion therapy suite.

WuXi PharmaTech broke ground in May of 2014 on a production facility for cell therapies in Philadelphia. The 45,000-sf clinical and commercial manufacturing project will feature flexible cleanrooms in a modular building design. Located in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, the cGMP facility is expected to begin production in the second quarter of 2015.

The Karolinska Institute is planning the second phase of construction at the Medical Research Laboratory in Solna, Sweden. Project developer Akademiska Hus AB has awarded Skanska a $61 million contract to construct a nine-story, 183,000-sf interdisciplinary research building. The first phase of construction at the Biomedicum campus is a $190 million, 678,000-sf facility, which is also being built by Skanska with completion slated for 2018.