PLANO, TEXAS — A partnership between Lincoln Rackhouse, the data center division of Lincoln Property Co., and Principal Real Estate Investors has acquired a 454,421-square-foot data center located at 1000 Coit Road in Plano, a northern suburb of Dallas. The seller was an undisclosed Fortune 500 financial institution. The property has 8 megawatts immediately available for lease with the capacity to expand to 16 megawatts. The facility was acquired as part of a 1 million square-foot portfolio of data centers that includes properties in Kansas City and Phoenix.
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GARLAND, TEXAS — Digital Realty, a San Francisco-based data center REIT, will embark on a $400 million expansion of its data center campus in Garland, a northeastern suburb of Dallas. The project will add 16 acres to the original site at the intersection of Campbell Road and the George Bush Turnpike. The company’s Garland campus is being developed over a 20-year period in five phases, each of which will add about 280,000 square feet of space and operate at 32 megawatts of critical IT load. The first phase is expected to be operational by late 2021.
RESTON, VA. — CoreSite Realty Corp. has received final approval from the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to expand the scope of its planned data center campus in Reston. With the approval, CoreSite can build an additional 289,000 square at the campus, bringing the total square footage to 900,000, or more than 100 megawatts. CoreSite acquired the 21.2-acre light industrial/office park in 2016. The data center provider already owns an existing facility in Reston. Upon full build-out of the expansion, its Northern Virginia data center footprint will span nearly 1.4 million square feet. CoreSite is one of the world’s largest data center providers, with 20 facilities under management across New York, Boston, Denver, Chicago, Miami, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and Northern Virginia.
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — Charlotte, N.C.-based Romans Properties LLC has arranged the sale of a 75,119-square-foot data center located at 1001 E. Campbell Road in Richardson, a northeastern suburb of Dallas. The sales price was approximately $36.6 million. The property is fully leased to Sungard AS, a Pennsylvania-based provider of recovery software for cloud computing and data systems. Chris Orr of Romans Properties represented the buyer, an institutional investor, in the transaction.
LEWIS CENTER, OHIO — Romans Properties has brokered the $5 million sale of a data center in Lewis Center, about 20 miles north of Columbus. The 57,000-square-foot facility is located at 8180 Green Meadows Drive. The property is fully leased by Cyxtera, which provides data center colocation, cybersecurity and cloud-based services. Chris Orr of Romans represented the buyer, an institutional client. The seller was not disclosed.
LOUDOUN COUNTY, VA. — New York-based Sentinel Data Centers has acquired Washington Dulles Gateway, a 280-acre tract in northern Virginia, for $82.5 million. The site features 140 acres of net developable land for a new data center project, which equates to a purchase price of about $589,000 per developable acre. The site is one of the largest contiguous tracts for data center development in in Loudoun County, located northwest of Washington, D.C. “Seventy percent of the world’s internet activity runs through Loudoun County,” says Jay Taustin, a representative for the seller. “We are extremely pleased to have sold this important land parcel to Sentinel Data Centers, which provides world-class facility infrastructure, engineering acumen, technical personnel and operations protocols to its users.” Mark Levy, Matthew Gallagher and Jonathan Walk of JLL represented the seller, which according to datacenterdynamics.com was developer and majority owner H. Christopher Antigone, in the sale. “Significant demand continues to exist for data center product in Loudoun County,” says Levy. “When we began the conversation with Sentinel, it was clear it had the market knowledge and sophistication necessary to execute a complex transaction such as this.” Sentinel also acquired 65 acres in Loudoun County for the same purpose …
HARTLAND, WIS. — Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT Inc. has sold its Milwaukee Data Center in Hartland, about 30 miles west of Milwaukee, for $21 million. The 59,516-square-foot property sits on nearly eight acres. Landmark Infrastructure Operating Co. LLC purchased the asset. The company also recently sold a data center in Alpharetta, Ga., for $64 million. Carter Validus Mission Critical (CVMC) REIT I owns one remaining data center in Andover, Mass., but CVMC REIT II owns 27 data center properties as of the end of the first quarter.
ALPHARETTA, GA. — Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT Inc. has sold the Alpharetta Data Center II in the northern Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta for $64 million. Delaware-based Alpharetta DC LLC acquired the asset, which totals 165,000 square feet. The facility include 50,400 square feet of powered-shell enterprise data center space, 58,814 square feet of office and administration space and 59,746 square feet of supporting infrastructure space. Carter Validus is a REIT that invests in mission critical real estate assets located throughout the United States. Defined as purpose-built facilities designed to support the most essential operations of tenants, mission critical real estate includes data centers and medical facilities.
MESA, ARIZ. — CyrusOne has acquired 68.2 acres of land within Mesa Elliot Technology Park in Mesa for the development of a cloud storage campus for the Fortune 1000. Upon completion, the campus will feature five buildings with up to 198 megawatts of critical power to power cloud computing services for clients. Details of the acquisition were not released. CyrusOne operates 45 data center facilities across the United States, Europe and Asia.
REMINGTON, VA. —Canada-based PointOne Development Corp. is underway on Remington Technology Park (RTP), a 234-acre data center campus in Remington, a city in northern Virginia. PointOne is investing $1.6 billion to develop the project, which will be supported by 300 megawatts of utility power and will have connectivity to terrestrial and undersea fiber-optic cables. Diode Ventures, in conjunction with Enfinite Capital, secured initial funding for RTP and will continue to provide financial modeling support and capital assembly for the balance of the project. Black & Veatch is providing design-build services. The Diode/Enfinite partnership will operate and maintain the campus upon completion. The project marks PointOne’s first investment in the U.S. data center market. A construction timeline was not disclosed.