America Online (AOL) has expansion plans in Northern Virginia. Construction began in late 2000 on a new $555 million technology center in Gainesville, similar to the one AOL has in Manassas. Both are in Prince William County, Va. At the company's headquarters in Dulles, an $86 million expansion is under way with two new buildings where 1,200 employees will be housed. One of the buildings is nearing completion.
Inktomi, an Internet infrastructure company based in Foster City, plans to expand near their headquarters with a 381,000-sf two-building complex at the $132-million Parkside Tower development. The two eight-story buildings accommodate 17,400 sf of retail on the ground floor and two three-story parking structures. Completion of construction is anticipated in December 2001. The developer is Wilson Cornerstone.
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.
California State University Hayward has joined with Geographic Network Affiliates International in a public-private partnership for the construction of an Internet switching center on six acres at the Hayward campus. Phase one of construction may be begin as early as April 2001 on a 180,000-sf facility to house network equipment and servers, with completion in fall.
Loudon Tech Center is a new $10 million, 25,000-sf data center under development in Sterling by Colo.com. The company, based in California's Silicon Valley, is focussing on much smaller data centers than are currently being built, offering speed to market, customer service, and security as benefits of the smaller facilities. Colo.com opened a similar data center in Vienna, Va., in early 2000.
Boston Internet City, a 450,000-sf telecommunications facility in Brighton, is nearing completion. Occupancy of the $55 million project is expected by summer, with tenant improvements starting as early as mid-February. Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, based in Boston, is developing the project.
Teraspace Networks has plans to provide co-location space for major voice and data carriers with a 500,000-sf data center in Austin that Teraspace will help finance, build and operate. The Austin data center will be one of seven $20 million facilities the company plans to develop. Construction is already under way on a 1.1 million-sf data facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to be followed in late 2001 by one in Austin and one in Houston. No dates have yet been set for centers in Phoenix and Denver.
Qwest Communications International Inc. expected to begin construction in December 2000 on a 157,000-sf data center at the Met Center business park near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Completion of the shell is anticipated in summer 2001, at which point Qwest will finish out the facility for occupancy in late 2001.
GiantLoop Network has hired Peabody Construction of Boston to renovate an 89,000 sf facility in Waltham, MA. Technological upgrades are included in the project cost of $2 million.
Union Station Telecom Center is under construction at the site of a former warehouse in northeast Washington. Construction began in summer 2000 to restore the six-story, 440,000-sf structure in preparation for tenant build-out.
Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications' business and technology division has broken ground on a new headquarters at the Valley Forge Corporate Center. The company will relocate approximately 400 employees working in the area to the new 136,000-sf office when it opens in August 2001.
Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. plans to relocate its Siemens Enterprise Networks Inc. division from Santa Clara, Calif., to the Skyport development under construction at San Jose International Airport. Siemens will move 1,200 employees in fall 2001 into two of three buildings being developed by Spieker Properties Inc. The two towers, providing a total of 370,000 sf, will house Siemen's global development headquarters for voice, data, and Internet applications.
Brocade Communication Systems is expanding operations at the Skyport development at San Jose International Airport. The company, which provides storage area networking infrastructure, will occupy an entire eight-story, 195,000-sf office tower currently under construction. The Brocade building is one of three that Spieker Properties Inc. is developing at the site. A second phase of construction, scheduled to start in two to three years, will include an additional three buildings, for a total of 1.1 million sf of office space.
