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Sabey Corporation’s Intergate.Columbia is
NAIOP Technology Development of the Year
NAIOP Technology Development of the Year
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 10, 2009
Seattle - Intergate.Columbia, a 438,000-square foot data center complex near East Wenatchee in Douglas County, Eastern Washington, has received the Technology Development of the Year award from NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association with 18,000 members across North America.
Sabey Corp., which constructed and owns the facility, was presented the award at the Washington Chapter of NAIOP’s Night of the Stars event on Friday, November 6th in Seattle. The project was recognized for excellence in the development of a state of the art data center campus. Sabey Construction Inc. broke ground at the 30-acre Intergate.Columbia site near the Columbia River in April 2008 and simultaneously constructed the shell and core for two buildings to meet the capacity and infrastructure needs of two major tenants. Despite the dual schedules and the complexity of the mechanical and electrical requirements, work was completed by the end of the year on time and within budget.
John Sabey, Senior V.P. Real Estate accepted the award for Sabey and acknowledged the contribution made by Douglas County officials. “The project would have been much more difficult had it not been for the support of the Douglas County officials who vigorously worked with us and assisted in our success,” he said. Sabey also recognized John Ford, Director of Technology Real Estate, John Sasser, Manager of Data Center Operations, Doug Gardner, Senior Project Manager, Andrew Gardner, Superintendent and Marcus McFarland, Project Engineer of Sabey Construction, Inc.
Intergate.Columbia is among the first wholesale data center campuses in the region. Data center operators are drawn to the area’s hydropower - a low-cost, low-carbon, sustainable source of electricity. The close proximity of the Douglas County PUD dams assures minimal line loss – another source of energy conservation and savings. Douglas County PUD power is 100% renewable with 98.5% from hydroelectric dams and 1.5% from wind generation. Other energy saving measures included the incorporation of economizer air handling to enable ”free-cooling” for most of the year as well as evaporative cooling which is possible due to the relative dryness of Eastern Washington’s air.
Sabey is in the final stage of LEED silver certification for Building B. Virtualization innovator VMware has recently announced its new premises at the campus where it is pursuing a platinum LEED certification for its Sabey-built tenant improvements. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/08/roundup-vmware-equinix-limelight.
Intergate.Columbia has been a boon to the rural community of Douglas County. The $225,000,000 campus construction contributed heavily to an increase in total taxable retail sales, which in the last quarter of 2008 alone rose by more than $100 million over the previous year to $243.5 million. The facility also provides permanent living-wage jobs, generates millions of dollars a year in property taxes and may well serve as a catalyst to bring additional technology development to the area.
“We refer to this in Douglas County as our own federal stimulus package, because it’s been very good for Douglas County,” said County Commissioner Ken Stanton at opening ceremonies for the T-Mobile Polaris Data Center at Intergate.Columbia.
NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, is the leading organization for developers, owners and related professionals in office, industrial and mixed-use real estate. NAIOP advances responsible commercial real estate development and advocates for effective public policy.