VICTORVILLE Kaiser Permanente unveiled its new high-tech, environmentally-friendly medical office building at 13993 Park Ave. on Friday morning, just seven months after shovels hit the ground.

The 8,700-square-foot facility stands just south of Kaisers larger building, near Palmdale Road. It will officially open for patients on Monday, with nine doctors using 16 exam rooms in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified facility. Primary care services will include family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, allergy and physical therapy.

We were long overdue to have more offices, said Greg Christian, executive director of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals/Health Plan in the San Bernardino County area. He welcomed Kaiser employees, city officials and representatives from the construction and architect teams to a ribbon-cutting ceremony before leading tours of the building.

We serve 64,000 members in the High Desert. It is one of our faster growing markets in the Inland Empire, Christian said. In seven short months we pulled this together. It certainly offers a lot more convenience for members in the High Desert. Its LEED certified because we want to be eco-friendly and provide a healthy environment.

Kaiser serves 3.7 million members in Southern California, with more than 460,000 of those in the Inland Empire, Christian said. The medical provider began offering seven-day urgent care treatment at its first Victorville medical facility, which opened in 1998, in October. Although that facility is 48,300 square feet, Christian said the company had outgrown that space.

Weve had doctors doubled up for almost two years, Rhonda Brockett, a registered nurse, said. So theyre excited to be here.

Brockett said the designers allowed Kaiser employees to choose the color palette for the new facility.

Theres a lot of desert (motifs) in the desert, she said. We wanted a spa-like theme.

Thats exactly what they got, with pastel colors of green, yellow and gray on the walls, along with some almost Asian-themed water and bamboo wallpaper. The lighting is a mix of fluorescent and LED and screens on the western outside of the building prevent the suns brightness from ever penetrating the windows. Thirty-five additional parking spaces have been added as well.

This is not the end of our work here in the High Desert. Youre going to see more, said Dr. David Quam, area medical director and chief of staff for the San Bernardino County area. Were really on the cutting edge of technology. We believe investing in technology is the future of medicine.

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Richardson, TX (PRWEB) March 28, 2014

LandPlan Development recently awarded Adolfson & Peterson Construction (A&P) a contract for a new Medical Office Building and Ambulatory Surgical Center, located at the corner of Kimzey Street and Locke Avenue in downtown Fort Worth.

The project, named Park Hill MOB and ASC, includes a 3-story, 51,000 square foot medical office complex. The first floor will house an 18,262 square foot ambulatory surgical center, and the remaining two floors will be shell space for future clinics.

The ambulatory surgical center will consist of reception, six pre-op rooms, a procedure room, four operating rooms, sterile preparation, eight PACU rooms, four step-down bays, staff locker rooms, staff lounge, and a family waiting area.

A&P has constructed multiple projects for LandPlan in Texas, including Forest Park Medical Center in Southlake.

A&P is excited to partner with LandPlan to build this important project, said Bob Lemke, Project Executive with A&P. As on all of our projects, our commitment is to provide the highest quality facility, with the greatest attention to safety, while carefully managing the construction process so as to minimize disruptions within the local community.

David Ransom, AIA, Vice President with LandPlan said that LandPlan is pleased once again to be working with the A&P team. We selected A&P because of their ability to consistently deliver quality facilities on time and on budget. A&P has always provided us with client driven, project focused construction services which have resulted in very successful projects for the LandPlan team. We value our relationship with A&P and look forward to the completion of this project.

Peak construction is anticipated in July 2014, with approximately 150 construction workers on site at that time.

The project is slated to break ground in April 2014 with completion scheduled for December 2014.

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Demolition began this week on the former AT&T building in Santa Rosa, the first step in a long-awaited effort to redevelop the vacant downtown eyesore into a glass-clad office building.

About 14 workers from Richmond-based demolition firm C. Hammond Construction began gutting the interior of the windowless, fortress-like structure, long considered a blight on the downtown.

Because we build things, we're excited to be building something, developer Hugh Futrell said.

The $16 million project, dubbed Museum on the Square, is a downsized version of the 10-story mixed-use tower originally proposed for the site.

But the plan promises to reinvigorate the long-lifeless southwest corner of Old Courthouse Square, with up to 255 workers and thousands of visitors to the wine museum and restaurant planned for the ground floor.

It's the latest and most high-profile of several development projects updating the look of downtown Santa Rosa. These include Luther Burbank Savings' new branch on the site of the former Traverso's deli; Humboldt Apartments, a five-story 51-unit building at Humboldt and Seventh streets also built by Futrell; and the Sonoma County Museum's expansion into the former Conklin Bros. flooring company building, at Seventh and B streets, which is becoming an art gallery.

On Wednesday crews dismantled metal racks holding obsolete telephone switching gear and extracted miles of wires running throughout the five-story building.

Workers at times looked as if they were battling sea serpents or mythical hydras as they wrestled huge tangles of telephone cables through the dimly lit building.

It's very time-consuming work, said Fred Kurestian, who is managing the project for Futrell.

The renovated 90,000-square-foot building will be the new downtown home of Luther Burbank Savings and TLCD Architecture, which designed it. A wine museum and restaurant are also planned for the first floor.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Five Republicans running for Minnesota governor stood united Thursday in their opposition to a planned Senate office building but showed slight separation from one another on the hot-button issue of medical marijuana.

The candidates held a rare joint news conference at the Capitol to showcase their distaste for a government building they said represents misplaced priorities by Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and his partys legislative leaders. The glass-faced structure - given preliminary approval last year - is due to rise in the shadow of the Capitol and cost $90 million when two nearby parking ramps are included.

The GOP hopefuls tried to outdo each other with the superlatives. Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Johnson called it a monument to government; former state Rep. Marty Seifert labeled it opulent; state Sen. Dave Thompson used decadent; businessman Scott Honour went with palatial; and former House Speaker Kurt Zellers opted for wasteful and unnecessary.

The office building has been attached to the broader renovation of the state Capitol. Senators will be forced out beginning next summer and need at least temporary space. Supporters of the new building argue it would open up more Capitol corridors to the public.

But the Republicans noted that the new plan also greatly expands the office footprint of the governor when the Capitol fix is completed in 2017. Dayton and his staff must relocate to a temporary office this summer and the governor wont return for years.

Seifert argued Dayton could still scuttle the project by not allowing his Department of Management and Budget sell the bonds to cover construction. Its not a done deal, he said.

Zellers ridiculed the design and noted that it wont even house all 67 senators in a Legislature that meets only three to five months per year. They said the money that will be paid back through a lease-to-own mechanism could have been better spent on other things.

Its the fact that it demonstrates a focus on St. Paul, said Thompson, referring to the seat of state government. The Democrats have focused on taking care of legislators and taking care of bureaucrats and taking care of union bosses and not taking care of the people.

Dayton spokesman Matt Swenson dismissed the criticism as scoring political points for the next election. He said the once-in-a-generation restoration project commands that leaders are focused on long-term needs. The House Rules Committee has the final legislative sign-off on the plan, but no meeting for that vote has been scheduled.

Meanwhile, the candidates weighed on a controversial proposal to allow marijuana for medical uses.

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Workday has proposed construction of a six-story office building near Stoneridge Mall and the nearby BART station in Pleasanton that would total 430,000 square feet and have enough room for 1,700 to 2,100 employees when fully occupied. The building is adjacent to Workday's current corporate headquarters in Pleasanton. (City of Pleasanton)

PLEASANTON -- Workday plans a major expansion in Pleasanton by constructing a large new office building that could have up to 2,100 employees, city officials said Wednesday.

The software company hopes to build a six-story, 430,000-square-foot office building on 6.9 acres of vacant land it is negotiating to buy from BART. The new offices would be next to Workday's current headquarters near Stoneridge mall.

"We are really excited that Workday sees an opportunity to grow and expand and maintain their headquarters presence in Pleasanton," said Pamela Ott, the city's economic development director. "More Workday employees will be living, shopping, eating in Pleasanton. And there should be more hotel visits as customers visit Workday."

Workday, which offers Web-based business software primarily for human resources, currently occupies more than 250,000 square feet in Pleasanton and employs more than 1,400 people, said company spokesman Eric Glass.

In addition to its new planned building, Workday may eventually expand into a five-building office complex known as Stoneridge Corporate Plaza that is next door to its headquarters. Workday co-founder David Duffield, through a company he controls named NPC Holdings, bought that complex a year ago, but it is currently occupied by other tenants. It potentially could provide enough space for an additional 3,000 workers.

Pleasanton-based Workday launched an initial public offering in October 2012, raising $637 million through the first-time sale of its stock, which was priced at $28. On Wednesday, Workday's shares closed at $92.59, up 231 percent from the IPO price.

Workday is still losing money. However, for its 2014 fiscal year that ended in January, it generated revenue of $468 million, up 71 percent from the year before.

"Workday could have leased some of the older buildings in the area, but they chose to construct a brand-new building that meets the standards of what young tech engineers want," said Edward Del Beccaro, a managing director with Transwestern, a commercial realty brokerage.

This expansion also bodes well for the ongoing efforts by the East Bay to attract more tech companies.

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CoBank will move its headquarters to a new 11-story office tower to be developed in Greenwood Village.

Shea Properties said Tuesday that CoBank has executed a long-term lease for the 296,000-square-foot building, which will be named CoBank Center.

The building will be part of Shea Properties' Village Center Station development along Interstate 25 between Orchard and Arapahoe roads. Construction of the building will start in coming weeks with completion scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2015.

CoBank's current headquarters is at 5500 S. Quebec St. in Greenwood Village, a building it has occupied since the bank was formed in 1989.

"Colorado continues to see companies make capital investments in the state, which is not only helping our economy recover, but shows that it is picking up momentum," Gov. John Hickenlooper said in a statement.

Peter Culshaw, executive vice president of Shea Properties, said the developer is negotiating with prospective tenants for another new office building, the nine-story Village Station Center II. That building will mark the completion of the office and retail development.

Davis Partnership has been the architect for each of the three phases of Village Center Station. Adolfson & Peterson Construction will be the general contractor for new construction. CoBank was represented by Barry Dorfman and Billy Byrne of Jones Lang LaSalle and Shea Properties was represented by Tim Harrington and Tom Lee of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank.

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For vandals on the prowl, Centennial Hills Center was just too tempting.

They smashed windows, sprayed graffiti and ripped out the copper from the abandoned medical-office project. As if to rub it in, they even set the elevator on fire.

Some investors now bet that the Las Vegas property, despite its trashed and troubled past, will prove a big money-maker.

Florida developer Malcolm Sina and his partners acquired the partially built, 24-acre project on Durango Drive near Centennial Parkway last fall. They are cleaning it, finishing construction and working to fill it with doctors, nurses and other health care workers.

Construction crews are on site, and Sina aims to have the eight-building first phase open for business by years end. If and when he sells or leases out that section, hell break ground on the 10-building second phase.

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, City Councilman Steve Ross and others will gather there Wednesday to celebrate the projects turnaround.

Its been sitting there as an eyesore, Sina said.

Sina is one of several developers in the past year or so who bought local, mothballed real estate developments victims of the recession in order to finish them. Buyers often scoop them up at steep discounts, but these bargains are far from risk-free in economically wobbly Las Vegas.

The local office market, for instance, is one of the worst in the country, with sky-high vacancy rates and minuscule asking rents. Health care buildings are faring a bit better than general office properties but still are limping along.

Its not as though medicals thriving out there, CBRE Group broker Carla Cole said.

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CoBank will become the anchor tenant in a new 11-story office tower to be developed in Greenwood Village.

Shea Properties said Tuesday that CoBank has executed a long-term lease in the 296,000-square-foot building, which will be named CoBank Center.

The building will be part of Shea Properties' Village Center Station development along Interstate 25 between Orchard and Arapahoe roads. Construction of the building will start in coming weeks with completion scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2015.

CoBank's current headquarters is at 5500 S. Quebec St. in Greenwood Village, a building it has occupied since the bank was formed in 1989.

"Colorado continues to see companies make capital investments in the state, which is not only helping our economy recover, but shows that it is picking up momentum," Gov. John Hickenlooper said in a statement.

Peter Culshaw, executive vice president of Shea Properties, said the developer is negotiating with prospective tenants for another new office building, the nine-story Village Station Center II. That building will mark the completion of the office and retail development.

Davis Partnership has been the architect for each of the three phases of Village Center Station. Adolfson & Peterson Construction will be the general contractor for new construction. CoBank was represented by Barry Dorfman and Billy Byrne of Jones Lang LaSalle and Shea Properties was represented by Tim Harrington and Tom Lee of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank.

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More than 4,000 black granite slabs had to be removed and reattached to the Workers Compensation Board's 54-year-old headquarters on Broadway.

The Workers Compensation Board has spent three years and $14 million to ensure its downtown office building looks precisely the same as it did before.

To heritage advocates, this is a victory.

More than 4,000 black granite slabs have been re-affixed to the WCB's 54-year-old headquarters on Broadway as part of an effort to solve a problem common to other stone-clad structures built in Winnipeg from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.

During this era, the architects who designed some of Winnipeg's best-known modernist buildings were not aware of the effect freeze-thaw cycles would have on stone cladding.

Over the course of decades, water and ice got behind the stones on the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Public Safety Building, convention centre and Centennial Concert Hall, cracking or rusting away the braces that hold the stones in place.

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