ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILL. — Skybox Datacenters is underway on the development of Skybox Chicago I, a 189,000-square-foot data center in the suburban Chicago community of Elk Grove Village. The project is the first facility being developed as part of a new partnership between Skybox and Prologis Inc. The partnership will focus on data center markets across Chicagoland. Completion of the first facility is slated for November.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — Google has announced plans to invest $7 billion in offices and data centers across the U.S. this year, creating 10,000 new full-time jobs across 19 states. The investment will include over $1 billion in the state of California; office expansions in Atlanta, Chicago, New York City and Washington, D.C.; and data center expansions in Nebraska, South Carolina, Virginia, Nevada and Texas. Further details on planned investments across the U.S. are below: South In the Southern U.S., Google will increase its investment in an existing South Carolina data center and its existing office campuses in Atlanta and Washington, D.C.; establish a new cloud engineering site in Durham, N.C.; open its first U.S. Google Operations Center in Southaven, Miss.; open a new office in Reston, Va.; and expand its data center in Virginia’s Loudon County. Midwest Earlier this year, Google established its first Minnesota office in Rochester and its new data centers in New Albany, Ohio, and Papillion, Neb., became operational. The company plans to expand its data center footprint in Nebraska over the course of 2021 and will begin further improvements at its Detroit, Chicago and Ann Arbor, Mich., offices. Texas Google’s new data center in Midlothian, …
LA MIRADA, CALIF. — Capital Source 1031 has purchased an all-purpose data center, located at 16680 Valley View Ave. in La Mirada, for an undisclosed price. The property was acquired for CS1031 California Data Center, a Delaware statutory trust. Cogent Communications, an internet service provider, occupies the 16,529-square-foot building. Cogent delivers internet, ethernet and colocation services to more than 88,100 customers in more than 207 markets and 47 countries across the globe. The tenant has more than 13 years remaining on its double-net lease with annual rental increases of 3 percent through the initial term and two five-year renewal options. Jeffrey Jackson of CBRE Capital Markets represented the undisclosed seller, while Capital Source 1031 was self-represented the in the deal.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Harrison Street and 1547 Data Center Real Estate Fund II, an affiliate of fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty, have purchased the historic Pittock Block Building, a 302,262-square-foot, mixed-use asset in Portland’s central business district, for $326 million. The seller was Also Investment Co. The price is the highest transaction cost in Oregon since 2015, according to JLL, which brokered the deal. The 302,200-square-foot building is one of the most connected data center buildings in the United States, serving 179 service providers, according to the buyers. Additionally, the property is one of only two primary internet exchanges in the entire Northwest. The property also features office suites and retail space. The acquisition of Pittock Block is the second investment for Harrison Street and 1547 following the purchase of the Wells Building, a carrier hotel and data center in Milwaukee. The Pittock Block is named after Portland publishing magnate Henry L. Pittock, whose house was located on the property until construction. The building was developed by a subsidiary of the Northwestern Electric Co. and several other investors, primarily as an office building with an electrical and steam generation plant in the three-story sub-basement serving the Portland westside. In 1986, Alco …
ATLANTA — QTS Realty Trust has completed the expansion of QTS Atlanta-Metro Data Center 2 (DC2), a 495,000-square-foot data center in Atlanta. The facility features 240,000 square feet of data hall space. QTS began the expansion in November 2019. DC2 is situated on QTS’ 95-acre campus and adjacent to Atlanta-Metro Data Center 1 (DC1), four miles northwest of downtown Atlanta. QTS signed two undisclosed tenants for the facility. DC2 supports 72 megawatts of power capacity, bringing the QTS campus to a more than 200-megawatt capacity. At full buildout, QTS expects to support more than 275 megawatts of power capacity.
HILLSBORO, ORE. — Denver-based Stack Infrastructure has broken ground on POR03, its newest data center campus in Hillsboro. Located at 4735 NE Starr Blvd., the 28-acre campus will feature a 180,000-square-foot facility offering 24 megawatts (MW), slated for delivery in third-quarter 2021. The new data center is located less than a quarter mile from a new 34.5 kilovolt (kV) substation, with power supplied by Portland General Electric. It is located on the Wave Business Hillsboro Data Center Ring, which offers high-count fiber connectivity and transpacific subsea cable access. The planned four-building campus will offer a total capacity of 84 MW at complete build out. Stack currently operates to other data center facilities in the Hillsboro region with a total of 28.8 MW that includes 3 MW of immediately available capacity, along with a neighboring build-to-suit campus with 12 MW of potential capacity. At full build out, Stack’s capacity in Hillsboro will total more than 125 MW.
MILWAUKEE — An affiliate of fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty LLC, in partnership with Harrison Street, has acquired Milwaukee’s historic Wells Building. The purchase price was $7.25 million, according to the Milwaukee Business Journal. The 15-story, 165,000-square-foot building is located at 324 E. Wisconsin Ave. and dates back to 1901. The property has a long history as a communications center and once served as the Milwaukee headquarters for Western Union Telegraph Co. Today, the building serves as a carrier hotel and data center. A carrier hotel is a building in a downtown location that houses networks and cloud services. The buyer plans to make significant investments in the building’s power and cooling infrastructure. Ascendant Holdings LLC, a Wisconsin-based commercial real estate development and investment company, was the seller.
HILLSBORO, ORE. — Skanska has signed a multi-phase contract with Flexential Corp. to develop H3 – Flexential Data Center in Hillsboro, a western suburb of Portland. The $64 million first phase includes a 349,827-square-foot Tier III data center with a structural steel core and concrete tilt panels as the primary façade. The first data hall will support an initial IT capacity of 4.5 megawatts. Construction is underway with completion slated for September 2021. Flexential is an IT solutions provider based in Charlotte, N.C. The company’s clients include healthcare systems, financial services corporations, digital media and communications companies and technology firms.
COVINGTON, GA. — Facebook will invest an additional $250 million at its data center campus in Covington, bringing the social media giant’s total investment at the site to $1 billion. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company will add three buildings and 1.5 million square feet to the property, which was first announced in 2018. Upon completion, the property will total five buildings spanning nearly 2.5 million square feet. Facebook expects to house 200 employees at the site, which is situated about 30 miles east of downtown Atlanta. A timeline for construction was not disclosed, but multiple media outlets report Facebook expects to complete the expansion in 2023. The design team was not disclosed.
PHILADELPHIA — Nerd Street Gamers, a provider of infrastructure services for the esports industry, will open The Block, an esports campus at 401 N. Broad St. in Philadelphia. Christian Dyer and Jackie Balin of CBRE represented data center owner-operator Netrality, which owns the 1.3 million-square-foot building, in the lease negotiations. The space will not only function as Nerd Street Gamers’ new corporate headquarters, but it will also include global broadcast studios, dedicated training centers for professional teams and schools and educational space for community partners.
