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THIS HALLOWEEN, LEASE TO A MAD SCIENTIST
October 31, 2012
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| We caught up with BNBuilders project executive Jay Ingram, who tells us the general contractor is nearing completion on a 45k SF renovation in Oceanside for Gilead Sciences. The building will house labs and offices to support Gilead?s adjacent pilot plant, which performs small-scale drug manufacturing for clinical trials. Jay says extensive site work will unify the two buildings, which had been independent facilities separated by a fence.Gilead, which bought the pilot plant a year ago, represents a new player in San Diego, with 100 employees here. It's also what Seattle-based BNBuilders had in mind when it opened offices in San Diego in May 2010 and the Bay Area in 2003—-to be "a West Coast Contracto r servicing clients that have projects in all three regions,? like Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Pfizer and Amgen. |
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| Gilead's new space is a former cell phone tower manufacturing building that was gutted down to the shell. (What makes a phone smart? If it can dodge a wrecking ball.) BNBuilders revenues have grown from $10M last year to an estimated $65M in 2012. It initially focused on life science and healthcare projects, but Jay says the company is broadening into other markets like commercial office, hospitality, multifamily, and education. Jay, who joined BNBuilders last December, worked in the construction industry in San Diego for seven years, then went to work for a developer for five years before coming back to his first passion (general contracting, in case you couldn't guess). He and wife Lori have a 15-month-old daughter, Makay. |
