Plans Set for Las Colinas Tech Center

Trammell Crow to Develop 193,000 s.f. Carrier Hotel Complex

By Rich Miller
CarrierHotels News Staff

Jan. 2, 2000 - ClayCo Construction Co. said Tuesday that it has been hired to build the Las Colinas Technical Center, a two-building carrier hotel complex being developed by Trammell Crow Co. in the Dallas suburb of Las Colinas, Texas.
The two-building, 193,000-square-foot complex will be located on a 16.5-acre site at Creative Way and O'Conner Blvd. in Las Colinas, and have the capacity to connect up to 16 telecom providers.
Trammell Crow said the project was the first of its kind in the Las Colinas sub-market, and is scheduled to be completed in mid-2001. In a press release, ClayCo said the new facility is "emblematic of burgeoning nationwide demand for 'telco hotels,' where telecommunications and data companies tie billions of dollars of transmission equipment to the Internet."
Las Colinas is a planned community in Irving featuring corporate parks that house the operations of more than 2,000 companies, including 40 Fortune 500 corporations.
The Las Colinas facility will consist of a 117,000-square-foot and a 76,000-square-foot building. Forum Studio of St. Louis designed both structures with the flexibility to meet the unique demands of telecom tenants. Joining Clayco and Forum Studio on the project is Fort Worth-based Carter & Burgess Inc., which handled telco, mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering.
ClayCo said the buildings are expected to feature 24-foot clear height structure to optimize storage space, floors that can accommodate 200-pound-per-square-foot loads, and fiber optic cable paths entering the complex through two separate manhole vaults at the edge of the site and converge in a "meet me" room for distribution to tenants. Both buildings will also be specially reinforced and equipped with redundant energy systems to protect sensitive equipment and support round-the-clock operations.
Clayco currently has projects underway in 25 cities across the United States and is on pace to deliver more than 16 million square feet of new construction in 2000. In addition to its headquarters in St. Louis, Mo., and its regional office in Dallas, the company has full-service offices in Chicago, Ill. and Detroit, Mich.