[BBLISA] co-location

[Dean Anderson]

I'm sorry, I think you are mistaken.  The "four connected buildings"  
describes exactly the facilities at 40 Sylvan Rd. The four buildings
surround an interior courtyard, with a duck pond complete with resident
geese.  There is an entrance off West St, which might seem a lot like
going into Home Depot. However, Home Depot is on First Ave, which is the
block before West St, if you are coming from I95.

The facility may have been closed in 1994, and reopened later--I don't
know, I didn't work there until 1998.  But it wasn't demolished to make
way for Home Depot. You can still go see it.  There is a Verizon sign on
it now.  Also, 40 Sylvan Rd is on about 30 acres, where Home Depot is on
about 5 acres.  Something may have been demolished for Home Depot, and it
may even have belonged to GTE, but this facility wasn't it.

		--Dean

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Debra Douglass wrote:

> On 4/2/2004, on ddoug at austin.rr.com, bblisa at bblisa.org, Dean Anderson wrote: 
>  >>On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Debra Douglass wrote:
>  >>> GTE used to have a site in Waltham, but that was vacated in 1994, and
>  >>> it was never a collocation site. Home Depot is now on that site.
>  >>
>  >>Not exactly. It is still there, behind home depot.  But now it has a
>  >>Verizon sign on it.
> 
> I'm sorry to say that you are incorrect. I know the GTE Waltham site
> was demolished to make way for Home Depot (I was working there at the
> time of the deal).  The GTE Waltham site (4 interconnected buildings
> total and surrounding parking lot) was sold as a unit to Home Depot. I
> was part of the team that moved the largest data center out of that
> site and I checked it out shortly afterwards as they were demolishing
> the GTE buildings.  I shopped at that Home Depot frequently afterwards
> since it was on my way home from the Needham site. It was kind of
> surreal to be shopping for tile and grout about the spot where the
> cafeteria used to be.
> 
> -Debra
>