DETROIT—This city has become accustomed to Quicken LoansInc. buying up buildings in the CBD and filling them with thousands of its employees. But thecompany is also looking beyond the downtown. Earlier this year, forexample, the company bought, and then demolished, an old warehouseat 1401 Rosa Parks Blvd. in the Corktown neighborhood, causing manyto wonder what it would do with the West Side property.
This week, Quicken, along with its affiliate BedrockReal Estate Services LLC, answered those questions bybeginning construction of a 66,000-square-foot data center andoffice complex on the site. As reported in GlobeSt.com, the projectis just the latest of many data centers startingto sprout across the Midwest.
The Quicken Loans Technology Center will feature two10,000-square-foot server rooms in addition to training, office andsupport space. Quicken Loans' technology team will occupy half ofthe new center. The company will lease the other 33,000-square-footportion of the building, including the second 10,000-square-footserver room.
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Brian J. Rogal
Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.
