Lisle, Ill.-based Tellabs Inc. will be consolidating its Massachusetts operations into a new Chelmsford facility. A maker of telecommunications equipment, Tellabs has scaled back previous plans to occupy a total of 270,000 sf in two buildings at the site to a single facility which will accommodate approximately 100 workers before the end of the year.
Clear Channel Communications Inc. is scouting the Stone Oak area with plans for a new approximately 360,000-sf building to consolidate several of its San Antonio departments. This is in addition to the company's 50,000-sf headquarters in Lincoln Heights, occupied in May 2000. Construction of the new facility--to be built in phases--is anticipated in summer 2001.
XO Communications Inc. is considering the construction of a 300,000-sf building at a 40-acre site in Richardson to consolidate its 1,500 Dallas-area employees. The project would include a large regional training center as well as an 80,000-sf data center to accommodate Web hosting, server management, collocation, and related services. XO is working with The Staubach Co. on the potential consolidation.
Pacific Bell, a subsidiary of Texas-based SBC, has opened a new $50 million, 135,000-sf data center in Irvine. The facility is designed to provide data services, such as Web hosting, collocation, IT infrastructure protection, and improved systems reliability to businesses who want to outsource those functions. SBC established a data center in Dallas recently, and is considering sites in northern California for a similar facility.
Trellis Photonics, based in Israel, has plans for a 60,000-sf manufacturing facility at the Columbia Gateway Business Park. The $18 million building will accommodate the fiber-optics firm's research, administration, and manufacturing operations. The company's $25 million, five-year growth plan includes a staff increase from the present 150 employees to 350.
The Atlanta Telecom Center, a multimillion-dollar project of Montreal-based Yale GSG Lee Real Estate Ltd., has opened in Atlanta's West End. Yale Provided site selection, financing, design, and engineering to convert the former Alterman Foods Inc. warehouse to a telecom hotel. Upgrades include a new roof, multiple fiber entrances to the structure, and distribution throughout the building of that fiber. Nearby fiber-optic trunk lines have attracted telecommunications companies to the area.
Exodus Communications has a new 650,000-sf data center under construction at the Ashburn Corporate Center, a 120-acre development by Du Pont Fabres north of Dulles International Airport. Completion of the Exodus data center is anticipated in summer 2001. Phase two of the project will provide a 300,000-sf building when completed in spring 2002. Donnally Lederer, Vujcic arcitects, based in Gaithersburg, Md., designed the building and the campus' master plan for Exodus.
Telecom giant AT&T Corp. will locate a 250,000-sf Internet data center at Riverside Business Park in Douglas County. Investing up to $500 per square foot for facility equipment and improvements, AT&T selected the site for its ample power supply, adequate parking and single-story facility space.
Radiant Photonics (formerly Radiant Research) has opened its new 35,000-sf headquarters in Northeast Austin. The fiber optics components manufacturer's new site includes facilities for pilot manufacturing and a cleanroom.
Teleglobe is relocating its corporate headquarters from Montreal to Reston, adding 200 personnel to its 800-person staff base in Northern Virginia. As part of a plan to build data centers around the country, Teleglobe is planning an 126,000-sf facility in D.C. as well as searching for a site to lease on the Dulles Corridor in the "Silicon Valley of telecommunications".
Ocular Networks has contracted with Liminality of Washington to design a new expanded headquarters in Reston, Va. The facility will provide additional space for the Ocular's growing engineering and manufacturing organizations.
The microelectronics division of Lucent Technologies Inc. has leased 62,000 sf in North Austin. Occupying a majority of the available 76,000 sf in Building 6 at Braker Center IV, the facility will provide space for projected growth and additional personnel in the network processors microelectronics group. Based in Murray Hill, N.J., Lucent's Austin space will include large hardware and software labs, a fitness center, game room, and a cafeteria.
Cyberfortress'@O'Hare, a 130,000-sf state-of-the-art Internet hosting facility being developed by DataCentersNow LLC, will be designed by RTKL Associates Inc.'s Applied Technology Group. RTKL will provide site planning, architecture, MEP, and all mission critical design for the facility to be located in Elk Grove Village. Clark Global Technologies of Bethesda, Md., a division of Clark Construction, will be responsible for construction of the facility. Completion is scheduled for May 2001.
The Yamacraw Design Center, the facility that will house Georgia's initiative for technology economic development in broadband telecommunications, is being developed in Midtown Atlanta. The building will include institutional and commercial design technology demonstration studios; prototypes of labs for applied R&D; and incubator and industry representative office space for member companies. Lord, Aeck & Sargent of Atlanta is the architect for the project.
CyberPlex @ Dulles, a new $72 million, 400,000-sf data center, is expected to break ground in April 2001 on a 29-acre site in Loudoun County. Completion of the project is anticipated by late fall. The developer is DataCentersNow, a subsidiary of Beco Management based in Rockville, Md. The company has already built one facility in Sterling -- the 55,000-sf CyberFortress I -- and is building CyberFortress II, a 110,000-sf data center, in Manassas, Va.
