The phrase "a facility known as" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing or referring to a specific place or establishment that has a particular name or designation.
Example: "The conference will be held at a facility known as the Green Valley Convention Center."
Alternatives: "a center referred to as" or "an establishment called".
This took place in a facility known as Unit 731.
I visited a facility known as the "shadow command center," which will replace N.Y.P.D. headquarters if One Police Plaza becomes disabled.
"He is kept separate from other children in a facility known as 'place of safety,' " said Manoj Kumar Upadhyay, a counselor at the juvenile home for boys.
The people who worked at the prison also described as common another procedure in which an inmate was awakened, subjected to an interrogation in a facility known as the Gold Building, then returned to a different cell.
In a paper published in Science in 1994, they concluded that the geographic pattern of the outbreak clearly showed that it was caused by an aerosol that had escaped from a facility known as Military Compound 19.
In another minor error, a facility known as Mousehatten House was designed to easily feed and care for large numbers of animals on special diets, so that their gut flora could be evaluated.
The Work Group adapted guidelines on a minimum set of data elements necessary to uniquely identify a health facility, known as a signature domain, to inform the core set of information contained in the MHFL (Box).
Some farmers, for example, have begun using a special facility known as a packinghouse to produce and transport food in better conditions and for higher prices.
(An innocent German who was arrested in Macedonia and flown to a CIA facility, known as the "Salt Pit", in Afghanistan filed a suit this week).But the main change must take place in Washington, DC.
On June 24 , 2015 Michigan Judge Lisa Gorcyca ordered three children -- ages 9, 10 and 15 -- to a juvenile facility, known as Children's Village, for "failing to maintain a 'healthy relationship' with their father.
They store and care for more than one million individual fungal specimens in a special facility known as the Fungarium.
