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Buyer Sought for Austin Facility

Carrier Hotels Staff Posted Apr 20, 2004

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AUSTIN, Texas – The BRS Group Inc. is seeking a buyer for its mission-critical data center at 501 Waller Street in Austin, and has retained Node Com, Inc. to market the property.

The 35,227 square foot facility was engineered to the highest standards by Level 3/Genuity and used until December, 2003 as a Telco POP for downtown Austin. The property includes 6,200 square feet of 18-inch Telco grade raised floor area, 6,600 SF of hardened data center space, 6,600 to 9,500 square feet expansion space and 4,500 square feet of finished and furnished desk space.

The facility can be acquired in whole as a production data center or disaster recovery site. It is equipped to meet the needs of colocation providers and firms requiring space for secure technical operations with support office space, and is attractively finished. Time Warner and SBC have diverse entry OC-48 fiber in the building, with 24 strands of unlit fiber connecting to Level 3 in the telco space.

Interested parties may contact Joe Suppers at Node Com.

Node Com Inc. specializes in mission-critical facilities, and can leverage industry relationships and a powerful network of web sites to locate buyers for data center assets. In 2003, Node Com participated in the marketing and sale of more than $110 million worth of data center facilities through its role as a real estate adviser to WorldCom/MCI and Metromedia Fiber Networks (AboveNet).

Node Com has also accumulated an extensive database of data center and carrier hotels sales, with information about more than $2 billion in property sales affecting more than 14 million square feet of mission-critical facilities. This information offers Node Com clients unmatched insight into recent comparable sales and the factors and trends that influence the value of data centers and carrier hotels in the current market.

Node Com Inc. provides a complete range of services to the data center industry, including facility marketing, real estate brokerage, construction management, colocation services, site decommissioning, equipment disposition and Internet publishing. Node Com was part of the team restructuring real estate assets for WorldCom Inc., and publishes the CarrierHotels.com web site.

The BRS Group was founded in Austin, Texas, in June 2002 as a privately-owned corporation and operates a fully hardened 24x7 collocation and disaster recovery facility on the edge of Austin's vibrant downtown business district. Within this 35,000 sq ft facility BRS offers DataSuites, Recovery-Suites, and SecurOffice™ Suites. The BRS Group's mission is to support leading, Texas-based corporations and government entities by providing high quality, low cost hardened data center and disaster recovery space.