Dimensional Innovations spinoff gets its own space

Shield Casework LLC, a spinoff business of Dimensional Innovations Inc., now has its own manufacturing facility.

Launched as an independent business only 14 months ago, the company now calls a 20,000-square-foot building at 1120 Ellerbrook Road in North Kansas City home. It previously shared space in the Dimensional Innovations facility in Shawnee.

“Many of us started with Dimensional Innovations and then came over to Shield Casework,” said Mandy Stark, brand director for Shield Casework. “So moving…

Facebook's Frank Gehry building unveiled in first pictures (gallery)

To get from Facebook Inc.’s existing Menlo Park headquarters to its new Frank Gehry-designed expansion building, you can hitch a ride on a 40-person “people mover” that shuttles beneath Bayfront Expressway. Estimated trip duration? About 40 seconds.

Expect a lot of travel between the two sites, starting today. On Monday, Facebookers began settling into their new offices as the social-networking giant officially opened the structure, dubbed “MPK 20.”

Facebook’s occupancy of the 430,000-square-foot…

San Antonio Museum of Art director: CPS land gift a game changer for downtown institution

The San Antonio Museum of Art is receiving a significant gift that will allow the downtown institution to address its severe shortage of space.

CPS Energy’s decision to approve a resolution that will result in the donation of approximately 3.5 acres of real estate including a former operations center facility at 326 Jones Avenue to SAMA will free up critical space on the museum’s existing campus for more exhibition and education needs.

The acreage in question is approximately half of the real…

MedImmune, Tech Council of Maryland chart path for region's biotech community

Could Greater Washington be one of the big three in biotech beside other market leaders like, say, Boston?

That was certainly the rallying cry Monday as CEOs and a few hundred entrepreneurs, academics and government types packed into MedImmune’s auditorium in Gaithersburg. MedImmune, the research and development arm of AstraZeneca, was hosting the first Maryland Regional Biotech Forum to chart a course for elevating the region’s reputation into the top three by 2023. The event was also hosted by…

Sneak peek: Topping off the structural steel at 2500 Smallman

The basic framework is in place for Chuck and Kristen Hammel’s big bet on high-end urban housing in the Strip District.

The architecture and design team for their 2500 Smallman project Monday celebrated the topping off of the basic structural steel for the development, which is taking a single-story warehouse and transforming it 11 “city homes” of two and three levels being marketed for more than $1.2 million each.

It’s a project expected to cost $10 million for the shell and more than $18…