Johns Hopkins's plans today call for a 4.7 million-square-foot research park on the site, up from the 1.8 million square feet of development planned when Ms. Banks, who died in 2005, turned over the land.

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Also, Ford is dedicating a 285, 000-square-foot research and development lab in Dearborn, Mich.

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Goldstein moved from Boston to San Diego in 2007 to establish San Diego Sexual Medicine, a 6, 000-square-foot facility with a sex therapist, physical therapist and a full clinical research facility where scientists study sexual dysfunction.

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