Dallas-based Hillwood Launches Carrier Hotel Venture

TeraSpace Networks plans facilities in five Southwest cities

By Rich Miller
CarrierHotels News Staff

Dec. 7, 2000 -- Dallas developer Hillwood Properties said Thursday it has formed a new venture, Teraspace Networks, to target the carrier hotel and web hosting markets.
TeraSpace's first project will be in a suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth, with plans to expand into Austin, Phoenix, Houston and Denver.
The new company has broken ground on a data center that will mark the first phase in a 1.1 million square foot buildout of the Alliance Gateway Internet Data Center. The 300,000-square-foot facility is scheduled for completion in March 2001 in Alliance, Hillwood's sprawling business center north of Fort Worth.
TeraSpace President James R. Trout said advances in fiber optic metropolitan area networks (MANs) make it possible for complexes like Alliance to prosper outside of carrier hotels' traditional turf in urban central business districts.
"Problems with downtown development within existing structures has forced tenants to make several unwanted compromises (clear height, floor plan layout and structural capacity), which can drive up total facility costs and delay project schedules," said Trout.
"Fortunately, recent construction of metropolitan fiber optic rings has eliminated the necessity to be physically located in central business districts for connectivity to Tier 1 backbone carriers," he added. "MAN connectivity makes it possible for TSN to offer the best of all worlds at its Alliance location: state-of-the-art facilities, scalable dual grid power and optimal connectivity."
The new facility at the 9,600-acre Alliance project will offer service from multiple carriers, including AT&T, Broadwing, Cable & Wireless, Enron, Genuity, Level 3, Nextlink, One Source/Millenium, Qwest, Savvis, Southwestern Bell, Sprint and Worldcom.
Projects by Hillwood include the dynamic 70-acre Victory development anchored by American Airlines Center in downtown Dallas and AllianceTexas, 15,000 acres over 65 square miles that include the commerce centers of Alliance, the corporate campuses of Circle T Ranch and the wired community of Heritage.