The campus will be built in two phases, with five buildingstotaling 638,000 square feet of floor space to be constructed nowand the remaining two comprising 322,000 square feet at a laterdate. Also planned are a 7,552-square-foot mechanical building anda 7,316-square-foot cooling tower enclosure that would beconstructed now. A four-level parking structure will be builtlater. Only three of the first five buildings will be utilized atstartup, with the other two to be occupied as needed.

Applied Bioscience is leading company in human genome researchand forensics applications, a field that has not been hit hard bythe economic crash from which most technology companies are stillrecovering.

The biotech company plans to accommodate 2,500 employees at thecampus over a 10-year period. The campus will be constructed on an80-acre property, located at 6001 Sunol Boulevard, which wasformerly owned by Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical.