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Siemens Relocates Division to San Jose
Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. plans to relocate its Siemens Enterprise Networks Inc. division from Santa Clara, Calif., to the Skyport development under construction at San Jose International Airport. Siemens will move 1,200 employees in fall 2001 into two of three buildings being developed by Spieker Properties Inc. The two towers, providing a total of 370,000 sf, will house Siemen's global development headquarters for voice, data, and Internet applications.
Brocade Communication Expanding in San Jose
Brocade Communication Systems is expanding operations at the Skyport development at San Jose International Airport. The company, which provides storage area networking infrastructure, will occupy an entire eight-story, 195,000-sf office tower currently under construction. The Brocade building is one of three that Spieker Properties Inc. is developing at the site. A second phase of construction, scheduled to start in two to three years, will include an additional three buildings, for a total of 1.1 million sf of office space.
Telcordia Building New Facility in Piscataway
Telcordia Technologies Inc. has broken ground on a new 231,000-sf office building at Telcordia's Raritan River facility in Piscataway. Kling Lindquist of Philadelphia is providing architectural, engineering, and interior design services, as well as a master plan review for the structure. Bovis Lend Lease is the construction manager on the project. Approximately 1,100 administrative and technical personnel may occupy the three-story corporate facility, which will be connected to adjacent buildings via second-story connector bridges.
Armory to Become Telecom Facility
The Armory will be converted to a telecommunications facility by FowlerFlanaganTechnologies Partners LLC of Larkspur, Calif. The company has telecommunications facilities in 12 cities, but this is the first in the San Francisco Bay area. The aging, fortress-like structure will provide physical protection for the critical equipment it will house. In addition, the building, which has good infrastructure, is located near Pacific Bell's central office.
Union Station Telecom Center Under Construction
Union Station Telecom Center is under construction at the site of a former warehouse in northeast Washington. Construction began in summer 2000 to restore the six-story, 440,000-sf structure in preparation for tenant build-out.