In Basket: New Cancer Institute to Open at L.B. Memorial
After an extensive selection process, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center selected Caruana & Associates to design the Todd Cancer Institute, a $28 million, 62,000-square-foot project.
The hospital opted to consolidate existing services into a centralized location to better accommodate patients.
The new TCI will be located on two floors of the LBMMC administration building and remain on the Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Miller Children’s Hospital campus in Long Beach.
It will house the MemorialCare Breast Center, Ambulatory Infusion Center, Cancer Research and physician office space.
Long Beach-based Caruana & Associates will provide complete design and construction administration services.
The design will “consist of a logical reflection of science and not of an architectural fashion that will fade with time,” according to the company.
Sea Launch to launch satellites from land
In an agreement signed with Intelsat in January, Long Beach- based Sea Launch will deliver two communications satellites built by Orbital Sciences Corp. into orbit, the company announced this week.
The Land Launch missions are planned for 2009.
The Intelsat 15 satellite will replace Intelsat 709. The payload will provide video and data services for the Middle East, Indian Ocean region and Russia.
The Intelsat 16 will provide Direct-To-Home transponder capacity for DIRECTV subsidiaries. IS-16 will provide in-orbit backup and additional transponder capacity for both Brazil and Mexico.
The Land Launch system uses a Zenit-3SLB vehicle to launch medium weight satellites from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan. Both the satellites and the launch vehicles will be integrated and launched from the Zenit processing and launch facilities at Baikonur.
For more information visit www.sea-launch.com.
L.B. restaurant raises money for SurfAid
Tantalum Restaurant in Long Beach raised $7,500 for SurfAid International as it celebrated during the Tantalum Bali Surf Sanctuary in Long Beach.
More than 300 guests attended the benefit for SurfAid International, an organization to improve the well-being of the people of Mentawai Islands, off the western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia.
The Tantalum Bali Surf Sanctuary benefit featured a silent auction with select items that were part of a mobile bidding process presented by 3Screens, a mobile marketing agency.
Tantalum is at 6272 E. Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach. For more information, call 562-431-1414 or visit www.tantalumrestaurant.com.
SurfAid International is a nonprofit founded by Dr. Dave Jenkins to improve the health and well-being of the Mentawai people. For more information visit www.surfaidinternational.org.
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