The regional business publication identifies the online retail giant as anchor tenant.
Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. will serve as the anchor tenant for Maryland-based Corporate Office Properties Trust’s (COPT) 34-acre data center site near Redskins Park, according to a report by the Washington Business Journal. COPT announced this past week that it purchased the site near Loudoun County and Gloucester parkways in Ashburn from St. John Properties for $14 million, with plans for a little more than 300,000-square-feet of data center uses. COPT’s first phase includes a 200,000-square-foot building.
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The number of planned data centers has grown again in Ashburn, sometimes called “data center alley,” with the announcement that Maryland-based Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has purchased 34 acres near Gloucester and Loudoun County parkways to serve as a new campus for a Fortune 500 company. COPT purchased the property from St. John Properties Inc. for $14 million. St. John recently broke ground on another property in Ashburn. According to its website, COPT “is an office real estate investment trust (REIT) that focuses primarily on strategic customer relationships and specialized tenant requirements in the U.S. Government and Defense Information Technology sectors and Data Centers serving such sectors.” The company intends to …
Marcus Aurelius
8:16 pm on Sunday, January 27, 2013
Wow, Loudoun County copped a BIG ONE! Does that mean we'll get free shipping? I know it means that we are going to be paying Virginia state taxes on everything Amazon SOON! more ›