CAPE CORAL, FLA. — Fort Myers, Fla.-based J.L. Wallace has finished the construction of two 5,600-square-foot buildings for St. Katharine Drexel Catholic Church in Cape Coral. The buildings house a chapel, classrooms and offices. The space was designed by Jason P. Tramonte Architect, and Liebl & Barrow and Harrop Engineering Co. provided engineering services.
LANCASTER, CALIF. – Barnhart-Heery has completed the $22.2 million William J. “Pete” Knight Veterans Home of California in the city of Lancaster. The single-story, 46,620-square-foot complex consists of two residential wings with a total of 60 beds for full-time residents, a 50-person Adult Day Health Care wing, and a services and administration wing. The four wings all surround a central courtyard. Located on a 30-acre site, the home will provide California’s disabled and aging veterans with rehabilitative, residential and medical care services.
WALTHAM, MASS. — Colliers Meredith & Grew has completed the sale of the former Bartlett School campus located on Trapelo Road in Waltham. The 5.8-acre property contains two buildings: a single-story, 50,156-square-foot brick school building and a 7,830-square-foot gymnasium. Colliers' James Elcock and Katharine Barry represented the seller, Bartlett School, as well as the buyer, Carroll School. The buyer, a primary school for children with learning disabilities, plans to use the property as an expansion of its main campus in Lincoln, Mass.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — The University of Texas System Board of Regents has finalized the design for the new special events center for the University of Texas – Arlington (UTA). Designed by HKS Inc., the $78 million project will consist of a 218,000-square-foot arena with seating for up to 6,500 people. The building will serve as the home of UTA's basketball and volleyball teams as well as host commencement ceremonies and other community events. The project is applying for LEED-Silver certification, with sustainable features that include almost building-height, low-e glazed exterior windows to let natural light in, a reflective roof, a low-use water system, and the use of regional construction materials and native landscaping. Groundbreaking is scheduled for 2010 and completion is expected in early 2012. The center is part of an effort to establish the university's east campus. The event center will open onto a new pedestrian mall that will be built on what is now Second Street, between Center and Pecan streets. Additionally, a four-story, mixed-use residence hall and parking garage will be built immediately north of the events center.
RICHMOND, CALIF. — The first phase of the Richmond Civic Center’s $91 million revitalization has been completed. It included the renovation of City Hall, the Hall of Justice and the combination Civic Auditorium/Art Center. Designed by Los Angeles-based Nadel Architects, the project is being led by Richmond Civic Center Partners LLC, a design-build partnership consisting of Alliance Property Group and Wasatch Advantage Group LLC. Phase II will include a brand-new, 80,000-square-foot Public Safety Building, and Phase III will feature mixed-use development consisting of market-rate and affordable housing, office space, and ground-level retail located along the MacDonald Avenue corridor.
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. — Barnhart-Heery has broken ground for an $85 million School of Nursing and Science/Math Complex at Riverside City College in Riverside. The complex will feature a two-story, 37,000-square-foot nursing facility and a four-story, 88,000-square-foot science/math building. The project encompasses 26 total classrooms, 12 lecture halls, 12 laboratories, two teleconference rooms, a Cyber Café, a Healing Garden, and faculty and administrative offices. Irvine, Calif.-based gkkworks has designed the complex to be LEED certified.
BALTIMORE — MdBio Foundation has sold the 56,000-square-foot MdBio Research Center to Rockville, Md.-based Emergent BioSolutions for $7.85 million. The property sits on 5.3 acres at 5901 E. Lombard St. in Baltimore. Mike Norris, Adam Nachlas, Henry Bernstein and Robert Scheer of Scheer Partners brokered the sale.
CORTLAND, N.Y. — KSS Architects has designed an $11 million expansion and renovation project at State University of New York's (SUNY) Cortland campus. The project will add a two-story, 20,000-square-foot wing to the 43,000-square-foot Studio West building. The addition will be used to consolidate several departments within the School of Professional Studies, including recreation, parks and leisure studies, communication disorders and sciences, kinesiology and sports management. The first floor of the new addition will include a clinic with an audiology chamber, observation and therapy rooms, a library and a resource area for the communications disorders department. The second floor will contain faculty offices. The wing will be linked to the existing building through a courtyard and connector. The other component of the project includes renovations to the existing Studio West building. The interior of the building will be reconfigured for easier navigation, two light wells will be added along the two main corridors to enhance natural lighting, and a geothermal HVAC system is being added along with an electronic control system. The project is being designed to meet LEED-Silver criteria but is not formerly pursuing certification. Groundbreaking occurred in October and completion is slated for early 2011.
HOUSTON — The Houston office of Turner Construction Co. has been selected by the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to construct a new church in Houston. Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church will be located at the intersection of Highway 290 and Fairbanks Road. The 18,000-square-foot building will be constructed of king-sized brick and cast-iron, and it will be topped off with three copper-shingled spires. Interior work includes vaulted ceilings with acoustical soundproofing, glass fiber-reinforced gypsum columns, and marble stone and red oak wood trim. The new church will be able to accommodate more than 1,200 worshipers. Jackson & Ryan Architects is designing the project. Completion is slated for May 2010.
OXNARD, CALIF. — The new $26.3 million student services facility at Oxnard College has been completed. The approximately 40,000-square-foot development features a two-story student-services building and a one-story food-services building at the heart of the 118-acre campus’ main quad. Heery International served as the program manager, and Nadel Architects was the project designer.
