Data Centers: Not Just For The West Coast Anymore
Inside one of Switch and Data's facilities. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Eric Hawthorn’s summary of Grubb & Ellis’s research on the top 10 data center transactions of 2011 serves as another reminder...
View ArticleWhy TV Might Not Be The Best Place To Learn About Data Center Property
It’s not exactly fair to say CNBC’s foremost investment guru Jim Cramer touches on commercial real estate very often. As is usual with folks following equity markets on TV, publicly traded REITs come...
View ArticleModular Construction: New Commercial Property Applications
(Photo credit: psd) If there’s one common thread to the huge number of different technological changes roiling commercial real estate, it’s standardization. Standardization looks for ways to treat...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean On The Ground When Netflix Moves To The Cloud?
Staying informed about the operations space needs of technology companies gets harder as technology evolves. Let’s take a look at a recent announcement for a recognized tech brand and try to process...
View ArticleData Center Retrofit? The First 13 Questions To Ask
The continued revolution in distance working / telecommuting is fundamentally altering commercial real estate’s traditional office space measures of economic health. Once, vacancy rates and square...
View ArticleThe New Industrial Midwest: Chicago’s South Side Data Centers
Chicago Skyline (Photo credit: Frank Kehren) Giant commercial properties built in the early 20th century to handle the business of an entire country — to bake its bread or to print its mail-order...
View ArticleData Center Heading Underground At Kansas City’s SubTropolis
In the underground commercial real estate market — a genre one might call “natural roof” commercial real estate – development starts at the ground and proceeds downward instead of upward. Using...
View ArticleAdaptive Reuse: From Newspaper Printing Plant To Data Center
QTS Chicago Data Center. Gail Kalinoski’s piece in Commercial Property Executive focuses on a big adaptive reuse story in Chicago. At 317,000 SF, the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper built for the future,...
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