DataCentersNow Acquires Chicago Site

110,000 s.f. data center will be completed in December

By Rich Miller
CarrierHotels News Staff

Oct. 30, 2000 -- DataCentersNow has entered the Chicago-area market by acquiring a commercial building site adjacent to O'Hare International Airport in Elk Grove Village, Ill.
The new facility, to be known as Cyber Fortress @ O'Hare, is a 110,000 square-foot data center-ready facility that will be completed in December. The project marks DataCentersNow's first foray outside its primary market in Northern Virginia's technology corridor.
The company currently has over 500,000 square feet of data center-ready facilities under construction in Northern Virginia and leases the stand-alone facilities to infrastructure-based telecommunications firms.
Cyber Fortress @ O'Hare is located at 2355 Wood Dale Road in Elk Grove Village, near the 170,000 square foot Internet Data Center under development by Exodus. Additionally, DataCentersNow is in negotiations to purchase approximately 30 acres of land in Elk Grove Village and Itasca for future data center development.
"Currently, most firms seeking data center compatible space in the Chicago market are forced to locate downtown in less secure multi-tenanted `telecom hotels','' said Chris Epstein, president of DataCentersNow. "Cyber Fortress @ O'Hare offers a much preferred alternative."
DataCentersNow isa division of BECO Management, one of the largest privately held commercial real estate acquisition and management concerns in the Washington, DC metropolitan area Since launching last January, the company has approximately 500,000 square feet of data center-ready facilities under development throughout Northern Virginia.