Infomart

INFOMART
General information
Status Complete
Type Office
Location 1950 N. Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, Texas, United States
Coordinates 32°48′03″N 96°49′11″W / 32.800953°N 96.819657°W / 32.800953; -96.819657Coordinates: 32°48′03″N 96°49′11″W / 32.800953°N 96.819657°W / 32.800953; -96.819657
Opening 1985
Technical details
Floor count 7
Design and construction
Architect Martin Growald
Developer Trammell Crow
Website
http://www.infomartusa.com/

The Infomart is one of the largest buildings in Dallas, Texas (USA). It is the world’s first and only information processing marketing center.[1]

It is located at 1950 N. Stemmons Freeway in the Market Center neighborhood between Oak Lawn and Interstate 35E near downtown. It is served by DART's Market Center Station.

History

The $85 million Infomart was opened as part of Trammell Crow's Dallas Market Center in 1985 on the site of the P.C. Cobb Stadium.[2] It was built to serve the needs of information technology companies and provide an environment that would stimulate growth. After several years as a permanent trade show for information technology vendors, the building was sold in 1999 and 2006.[3] The building was purchased by ASB Real Estate and currently serves as a technology office and data center, home to more than 110 technology and telecommunications companies.[4] The property and management team were recently merged with another Data Center operator, Fortune Data Centers, to create a national operator. The combined entity will operate under the name Infomart Data Centers.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, Infomart hosted combined monthly meetings of many Dallas-area computer user groups, including those for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Atari ST, and Commodore Amiga.

Design

At 1,583,309-square-foot (147,094.2 m2) spread across 7 floors and 18.2 acres (74,000 m2), the Infomart is one of the largest and most distinctive buildings in Dallas.[5] The design was modeled after The Crystal Palace, a huge iron and glass building originally erected in Hyde Park in 19th century Britain to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.[6] The Infomart also contains a reproduction of the Crystal Fountain created by the same company, Barovier & Toso.[7] The Infomart was built with steel frame curtain wall construction. The building's hospital-grade electrical power is supplied by 4 independent electric feeds and six in-building transformer substations, providing a very reliable source. More than 16 fiber providers have a physical presence at the Infomart, allowing 8,700 strands of fiber into the building with bandwidth capacity near 26 trillion bytes per second.[8]

Tenants

A number of tenants are housed in the building. One organization is Wade College.[9]

References

  1. ↑ http://dallasmarketcenter.com/documents/oview_history.pdf
  2. ↑ Whitt, Richie (April 12, 2010). "Texas Stadium: Rest in Pieces". Sportatorium. Dallas Observer. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  3. ↑ Jordan, Jaime S. (2006-02-08). "Dallas Infomart sold to California firm - Dallas Business Journal". Dallas.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2010-08-11.
  4. ↑ http://www.infomartusa.com/history_home.html
  5. ↑ "ULI - Development Case Studies". Casestudies.uli.org. Retrieved 2010-08-11.
  6. ↑ "Infomart". Infomartusa.com. Retrieved 2010-08-11.
  7. ↑ "entschwindet und vergeht: the Infomart Uncanny". Youyouidiot.blogspot.com. 2009-10-06. Retrieved 2010-08-11.
  8. ↑ "Infomart". Infomartusa.com. Retrieved 2010-08-11.
  9. ↑ Wade College directions
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