DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE:COR), a premier provider of secure, reliable, high-performance data center and interconnection solutions across the U.S., today announced that it executed a lease providing for expansion in its Washington D.C. campus, where CoreSite will increase its turn-key data center capacity with the addition of DC2.
The 10-year lease - with renewal rights of three, 5-year extensions at specified rental rates - is for 25,000 square feet of shell capacity. CoreSite expects to commence construction during the second quarter of 2017, and deliver the 25,000 square feet, with a likely critical capacity of approximately 2 MW, during the fourth quarter of 2017, at an estimated cost of approximately $20 million.
“We are excited about expanding our Washington, D.C. campus to meet the new demand generated by our DC1 facility, which is the premier network-centric colocation facility in the Washington, D.C. sub-market. DC1 has more than 60 network, cloud and IT service providers among our customer community,” said Paul Szurek, CoreSite’s Chief Executive Officer. “In line with our campus strategy, we will leverage the proximity to DC1 by procuring high-count dark fiber connecting DC1 and DC2, enabling us to fulfill performance-sensitive demand from networks, content providers, cloud providers, locally-based enterprises, latency-sensitive financial news organizations and government agencies.”
In addition to its Washington, D.C. campus, CoreSite’s current presence in Northern Virginia includes , two stabilized facilities on CoreSite’s Reston, Virginia campus (VA1 and VA2), and one facility in early development stages, part of CoreSite’s recently announced expansion of its Reston campus (VA3). With the expansion at DC2, CoreSite will have more than 1,097,000 square feet of colocation data center space upon full build out, more than 2.5 times its previous square footage. CoreSite’s customer community includes a diverse mix of government, financial services and cloud service providers, as well as domestic and international networks providing a direct connection to U.S. and European markets. With the importance of Northern Virginia as a communications and enterprise hub, CoreSite’s Reston and Washington, D.C. campuses provide flexible colocation and hybrid-cloud deployment solutions for customers located in Washington, D.C. and the greater Northern Virginia area.
About CoreSite
CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE:COR) delivers secure, reliable, high-performance data center and interconnection solutions to a growing customer ecosystem across eight key North American markets. More than 1,000 of the world’s leading enterprises, network operators, cloud providers, and supporting service providers choose CoreSite to connect, protect and optimize their performance-sensitive data, applications and computing workloads. Our scalable, flexible solutions and 400+ dedicated employees consistently deliver unmatched data center options — all of which leads to a best-in-class customer experience and lasting relationships. For more information, visit www.CoreSite.com.
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