ViaSat searched 51 sites in six counties before Ben Logue, asenior vice president at Atlanta-based Colliers Cauble, found thelocal site. "We scoured the metro Atlanta area for the rightlocation and Breckinridge proved to be the perfect fit for ViaSat,"Logue says. The park offers the high-tech amenities required byViaSat's office and manufacturing operations, "as well as greataccess for its growing employee base," the broker adds. ViaSat hasa staff of 214 workers.

The first phase of the Gwinnett County development includes atwo-story, 63,000-sf, class A office building; an 80,000-sffacility for antenna engineering, fabrication and manufacturing;and an outdoor antenna staging pad to enable the buildup andtesting of completed antenna systems. The remaining 3.5 acres,reserved for future expansion in the second phase of thedevelopment, will be tentatively used for employee recreationfacilities.

ViaSat is also negotiating for a site in Jackson County thatwould replace the antenna group's pattern range in suburbanNorcross. ViaSat first came to Gwinnett county in 2000 when thecompany acquired the satellite networking and satellite antennabusinesses of Scientific-Atlanta.