San Diego's SAIC Starts 150,000-SF Campus

ORLANDO-San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp. has broken ground on a planned 150,000-sf high-tech campus that will headquarter the Fortune 500 company’s Applied Software Systems Engineering Technology Group at Central Florida Research Park next to the University of Central Florida in east Orange County.

The first 85,000-sf, three-story building is scheduled for completion in February. The second 65,000-sf structure is tentatively set to break ground in 2004.

SAIC officials couldn’t be reached at GlobeSt.com’s publication deadline to learn the construction cost of the project. But area construction industry estimators feel the hard cost of the build-to-suit venture will be at least $150 per sf or a total $23 million.