Level 3 Starts Work on Boston Facility

Second Metro Gateway center will offer 500,000 s.f.

By Rich Miller
CarrierHotels News Staff

Sept. 6, 2000 -- Level 3 Communications, Inc. said it has started construction on a second Internet and telecom facility in the Boston area. The new 500,000 square foot Gateway facility in Needham, Mass. will be connected by the Level 3 network to the company's existing Boston metro Gateway.
"Our expansion taking place in New England and other areas around the country is a direct result of the continuing growth of the Internet economy,'' said Kevin J. O'Hara, president and chief operating officer for Level 3. "Our Gateways enable Internet service providers and other Level 3 customers to meet the growing demand for Internet and communications services in these important markets.''
Level 3 already has a 40,000 square foot Gateway in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which opened in January 1999. The new facility, located in the New England Business Center, is being constructed in two phases, the first which will include three floors and be approximately 314,000 square feet when built out, and is expected to be operational in the third quarter of 2001.
"There is such an incredible demand that is increasingly growing for this type of facility in New England,'' said Brian Corcoran, program manager of Gateway Deployment for Level 3.
Level 3 currently has secured approximately 4.4 million square feet of Gateway and technical space worldwide, and expects to ultimately have 6.5 million square feet of space secured.