"We're being very sensitive to the historic central businessdistrict ofthe city, built in the late 1800s," Spoon says. Thefront portion of thebuilding will be built to the same height asthe surrounding commercialproperties, and will get larger near therear of the building as a way of keeping the flow of the Downtownarea similar.

The 37,500-sf building will cost about $10 million to build,Spoon says, with construction starting next month.Surrounded byolder buildings, the new facility will have the mostmoderntechnology, Spoon says."We'll have a DS3 line, and our ownfiber-optic network within the building.We think the data linesavailable to our tenants will be an attractiveselling point."

Negotiations are ongoing with a few tenants, he says, but hedeclined toname them.Parking, a commodity in the busy college town,will be provided in garages attached to the building.