| South Bend Union Station/Global Access Point | |
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Interior of Union Station in 2009 |
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| Address | South Bend, Indiana |
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| Location | |
| Lat: 41°40'9.59"N Lon: 86°15'17.10"W | |
Global Access Point as an entity began in 2003 as a vision of the future. Because Union Station (South Bend, Indiana) is located at the junction of three railsystems, telecom carriers began running lines through the facility in the late 1980s.[1] These carriers now total 13, including many big names such as Cogent and Reliance Globalcom.
As the Union Station sat empty after it was no longer in service as a train station, the owner used part of the facility for a family manufacturing business but saw a need to renovate the main areas. Over time the facility was rented out for formal events but eventually the need and opportunity presented itself to build-out the facility into a state of the art data storage facility built to bring South Bend, Indiana into the 21st Century, attracting new commerce for the local economy.[2]