Legacy Investing Expands Data Center Connectivity With Zayo Group At T5@Minneapolis | News
MINNEAPOLIS and ARLINGTON, Virginia., June 30, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Legacy Investing, a technology-based real estate investment and real estate firm, today announced an agreement with Zayo Group Holdings, Inc., a leading global provider of fiber optic communications solutions, to provide connectivity services to the T5 @ Minneapolis data center at 1001 Third Avenue South in downtown Minneapolis.
“Connectivity is at the core of T5 @ Minneapolis and this agreement further enhances the offerings available to our customers in the building,” said the President and Co-Founder of Legacy Investing, Daniel English.
Minneapolis is a key connection point for the Midwest, enabling businesses and content companies to serve a growing population and diverse business communities. T5 @ Minneapolis is the only purpose-built data center in downtown Minneapolis. With 3.9 MW data hall capacity available immediately, the building offers high-density connectivity with access to over 74 network providers, including large public cloud onramps.
“Zayo’s collaboration with T5 @ Minneapolis enables businesses and organizations in this key region to access the capacity, diversity and low latency that are essential to meeting the growing demands of next-generation technologies,” said Derek Gillespie, Managing Director and Head of Enterprise Sales at Zayo. “Our deep, dense metro network and global reach will provide the critical infrastructure to support the impressive growth and drive innovation in this region.”
“The addition of Zayo to T5 @ Minneapolis adds world-class connectivity solutions that enable our customers to optimize their business operations,” added Jason Walker, Senior Vice President of Sales and Leasing for T5. “Our ability to deliver a bespoke network solution for multiple telecommunications providers or cloud platforms sets T5 @ Minneapolis apart from any other data center in the region.”
About Legacy Investing, LLC
Headquarters in Northern Virginia Founded by seasoned executives from technology companies, Legacy Investing focuses on business-critical real estate affected by new technology: digital and physical supply chains, future jobs, and life sciences. Legacy leaders have used this platform and its C-level experience in public companies for more than two decades $ 2.75 billion for transactions in data centers, e-commerce distribution centers, modern office buildings and life sciences facilities on an area of 19 million square meters on behalf of selected family offices and institutional investors. Legacy uses its expertise in the impact of technology on tenant demand, location selection and rental to target and position properties to meet those needs and create long-term property value. More information is available at www.LegacyInvesting.com.
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. provides the world’s most influential companies with mission-critical bandwidth and drives the innovations that transform our society. Zayo’s 126,000 mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, ethernet, dedicated internet access, and data center connectivity solutions. Zayo owns and operates a Tier 1 IP backbone and provides low-latency private connectivity through its CloudLink service that connects businesses to their public cloud environments. Zayo serves wireless and landline operators, media, technology, content, finance, healthcare, and other large businesses. Further information can be found at https://zayo.com/
T5 Data Centers is your full-lifecycle data center partner and offers tailor-made, tailor-made, turnkey wholesale or powered shell data center solutions. As the only provider for the entire life cycle of the industry, T5 offers its customers the construction of critical assets and its award-winning operational services for uptime and uptime. T5 currently operates over 500 MW of critical load in 50 data centers and provides turnkey solutions in 9 US markets.
SOURCE Legacy Investing, LLC
