Amerimar Enterprises announces it has acquired 1102 Grand Avenue, a fiber-rich building located in Downtown Kansas City. With many of the building’s occupants specializing in telecommunications, Amerimar Enterprises is partnering with telecom industry veteran Hunter Newby to own and operate the Property. Notably, Kansas City has recently flourished with fiber builds and network development; this is due, in a large part, to the willingness and encouragement of the city and its IT-savvy community to foster and promote this activity with the intent to further increase the area’s business and economic opportunities.

“1102 Grand fits squarely within Amerimar’s strategy to acquire properties with stable cash flow and the opportunity to add value over time through infrastructure improvements,” states Jerry Marshall, President and Chief Executive Officer of Amerimar. “1102 is a natural fit for the Amerimar platform, and we’re thrilled to be working with Hunter Newby on yet another telecom property.”

The 26-story, 194,000-square-foot property was originally developed in 1931 as an office building. The property has since been redeveloped into the most fiber-dense, network-neutral facility in the Kansas City Metro area and is one of the fastest growing telecommunication hubs in the Midwest. The building serves as a major hub for data and Internet traffic in the region by providing the necessary data center infrastructure for carriers, service providers, and enterprise customers to interconnect with one another reliably and cost effectively. The building’s location is of particular interest to telecom businesses, with immediate access to the Axon ring (the fiber optic loop that connects the Johnson County area of the Kansas City Metro with Downtown Kansas City). The building also provides highly reliable data center operations with its robust power and HVAC infrastructure.

About Amerimar Enterprises, Inc.:
Amerimar Enterprises, Inc. is a real estate development, investment and management firm with offices in Philadelphia and New York. Amerimar is a recognized leader in the renovation and repositioning of office, hotel, retail, multi-family and mixed-use properties throughout the US and UK. Since 1993, Amerimar has acquired over 50 properties totaling approximately 10.5 million square feet of office, 870,000 square feet of retail, 3,200 hotel rooms and 2,600 residential units. 22 of those projects were either new development or substantial renovations. For more information on Amerimar, please visit www.amerimar.com

About Hunter Newby:
Hunter Newby is a communications network business and real estate investor and developer with a highly successful track record of creating value. He is recognized globally as a thought-leader in the industry. Mr. Newby has held a senior role in over $600 Million of transactions, served on several Advisory Boards, is a published author, public speaker and the recipient of numerous awards including being named to the Global Telecoms Business Top 40 Under 40 in 2010. For more information please visit www.hunternewby.com.

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Kansas City Data Center & Internet Hub 1102 GRAND Reviews Its Growth Formula

Friday, September 7th, 2012

By: Greg Elliott, Director of Business Development at 1102 GRAND

1102 GRAND has been extremely fortunate over the past seven years for our growth.  We thank our customers and our trusted partners in the area, and around the world for helping us out. I am consistently asked: “How does 1102 GRAND continue expanding at a rapid pace?”  I typically reply, “Our growth is due to our whole team doing their job and then some, our stewardship to the IT community and never turning away a potential opportunity.”  1102 GRAND is extremely excited to be a founding member of KCnext – The Technology Council of Greater Kansas City, a member of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, on the Executive Board of the Association of Customer Contact Professionals and assisting with other organizations when it makes sense.

We have had many customer successes, which we are proud of, and we share with you on occasion when the client gives consent, but unfortunately cannot share a lot of them due to NDAs.   Recent successes this week include an international webhosting company expanding their colo footprint and a new private cloud provider signed a long-term agreement for a private cage space.  1102 GRAND has been seeing growth in both of these areas, as well as managed service providers type clients.

When we ask our customers why they choose 1102 GRAND as their colocation facility we receive a number of replies.  The recurring thread seems to be the following:

1)   1102 GRAND is flexible and works to meet the customer’s needs

2)   The client can see room to grow their business at 1102 GRAND

3)   1102 GRAND works as a partner in the client’s business

4)   1102 GRAND is a carrier neutral and managed service provider neutral facilty

5)   1102 GRAND has 30+ extremely competitive carrier/provider connectivity options.  For example- 10 Meg internet as low as $40/month, 100 Meg Internet as low as $200/month and full GigE Internet for as low as $1000/month.

If you are considering colocation, let us know and we will tell you if we can help.  If we can’t be of assistance, most likely we will know who can.  If you aren’t sure if you are a candidate for colocation, check out our homepage at www.1102grand.com for our ’10 Signs You Should Visit With 1102 GRAND About Colocation.’

I would welcome the opportunity to show what we have been building at 1102 GRAND.  Feel free to send me an email at Greg@1102Grand.com and I will be happy to set it up.

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Kansas City Data Center 1102 GRAND Announces New Private Cage Colocation Area

Wednesday, August 8th, 2012

By: Greg Elliott, Director of Business Development at 1102 GRAND

1102 GRAND continues to grow at a rapid pace in 2012!

I wanted to share with you a few pictures I took of our new private cage colocation area. In this new 7,500 square foot space we have designed the cages modularly to accommodate different sizes of colocation footprints.  The standard size is twenty 12’x12’ cages, but we can configure the space to a 12’x24’, 12’x36’, and so on. This allows our clients the flexibility to have the space to expand in a contiguous fashion or to accommodate anticipated growth.

The new space is similar to our other colocation areas within our SSAE16 Type 2 facility. Clients will find multi-factor security authentication, gas-based fire suppression, redundant Lieberts, UPS and generator supported power feeds, the ability to connect to any of the 30+ carriers/providers in our Meet Me Room, along with a multitude of other features.

In addition to this expansion, we have additional spaces within our building for anticipated colocation/datacenter growth. If you are in the area and want to schedule an appointment for a tour, feel free to email me at Greg@1102Grand.com. I welcome the opportunity to share what we have been building at 1102 GRAND!

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1102 GRAND, Kansas City’s Internet Hub & Collocation Facility, Announces the PoP Expansion of Hurricane Electric

Friday, June 29th, 2012

By: Greg Elliot, Director of Business Development at 1102 GRAND

Kansas City, Mo. – Over the past year at 1102 GRAND, a Kansas City data center, Hurricane Electric experienced more than 400 percent growth and as a result has increased the number of fiber paths into the building to three and has just performed a major core router upgrade.  The company is considered the largest IPv6 backbone in the world as measured by the number of networks connected.

Greg Elliott, 1102 GRAND director of business development, explained how beneficial it has been working with Hurricane Electric. “As Hurricane Electric has established a presence at 1102 GRAND it has been a win-win for everyone involved.  Hurricane Electric adds its robust network and aggressive pricing structure to the 1102 GRAND Meet Me Room to provide our customers with another choice to strengthen their overall IT solution. Customers consistently tell us that the amount of money they save on Internet connectivity at 1102 GRAND more than covers their costs to establish a colocation presence at our facility,” said Elliott.

Reid Fishler, director of carrier services at Hurricane Electric, spoke about the success they have achieved with 1102 GRAND’s assistance. “Hurricane Electric has had tremendous success in the Kansas City market, specifically at 1102 GRAND.  Our recent upgrade is a reflection of that success and puts 1102 GRAND on track to equaling markets such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago,” said Fishler.

Elliott added, “1102 GRAND has seen an influx of cloud, managed service and Web hosting providers over the past year, and Hurricane Electric is a large part of the reason why.  Affordable and reliable Internet connections up to 10 gigabits per second help cloud service providers and enterprise IT executives effectively manage their increasingly demanding network requirements.”

1102 GRAND is a Midwestern carrier hotel and network neutral collocation facility specifically enhanced with the infrastructure to host and provide services to an array of global network operators including carriers, service providers and enterprise customers who demand highly secure and connected, customized solutions for their core networking equipment. 1102 GRAND offers a wide array of collocation options including cabinets, cage space, suites and space for private data centers, all of which are connected to a carrier neutral Meet Me Room, housing nearly 30 carriers and service providers.  “Like” us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter at @1102grand.

Fremont, Calif.-based Hurricane Electric operates its own global IPv4 and IPv6 network and is considered the largest IPv6 backbone in the world as measured by number of networks connected. Within its global network, Hurricane Electric is connected to 52 major exchange points and exchanges traffic directly with more than 2,100 different networks. Employing a resilient fiber-optic topology, Hurricane Electric has no less than four redundant paths crossing North America, two separate paths between the U.S. and Europe and rings in Europe and Asia. Hurricane Electric offers IPv4 and IPv6 transit solutions over the same connection at speeds exceeding 10 Gbps.

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Kansas City Data Center & Internet Hub Announces Tour de Colo- A Colocation Referral Program

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

By: Greg Elliott, Director of Business Development at 1102 GRAND

Starting June 1^st, 1102 GRAND will be rolling out our Tour de Colo – Colocation Referral Program.  We already receive excellent introductions via our existing customers, networking contacts and vendors, but we wanted to come up with an additional way to say “thank you” for introductions to new potential clients. The program is simple with no selling and there are opportunities to earn great rewards.  To learn more and get started with the Tour de Colo give me a call at 816-213-7731 or email me at Greg@1102Grand.com.

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Kansas City Data Center 1102 GRAND Reviews: What is a Carrier Hotel?

Friday, February 10th, 2012

By Greg Elliott, Director of Business Development at 1102 GRAND

The Kansas City area is an exciting place to be right now. The region is buzzing about innovation, household gigabit fiber and entrepreneurship.

As I’m attending numerous events surrounding these topics, I have noticed a trend in the types of questions and increased interest in data centers, colocation, networks, private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, carrier hotels, disaster recovery and the list goes on. So, in the coming months I will work to share with you what I see, hear and learn. If you would like to see a particular topic covered, send me an email at greg@1102grand.com or give me a call at 816-213-7731.

The most common question I have received lately is what is a carrier hotel? (Disclaimer: 1102 GRAND is Kansas City’s carrier hotel and colocation facility.) The simple explanation is that they are facilities almost always found in a downtown area where the fiber is the most dense, close to the ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier) and have an abundance of carriers/providers with fiber built into the facility. Typically, carrier hotels are identified by their address and they are found in Tier 1 (sometimes multiple) and Tier 2 cities.

Carrier hotels provide a neutral place for carriers and providers to connect their networks. For example, 1102 GRAND has over 30 ISPs (internet service providers) in our Meet Me Room where all the passive connections occur. With so many possibilities for direct connections to multiple networks, carrier hotels make ideal colocation facilities, or offsite data centers, for businesses of all sizes and government agencies that need access to multiple providers, or have large bandwith appetites. The Meet Me Room’s location within the facility where clients already collocate allows clients to easily change or add network services as their model scales or evolves. Additionally, in most cases, access to a network becomes less expensive at a carrier hotel because the end client has a direct gateway to the ISP’s network. The local loop or access charge goes away or is minimal. Sites such as 1102 GRAND are used as primary/production data centers, backup sites or PoPs (point of presence) on the client’s nationwide or global network.

That is a high level overview of the carrier hotel, but if you want to come check out our facility, give me a call and we will make arrangements.

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Kansas City Data Center 1102 GRAND Attains SSAE 16 Type II Audit

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

KANSAS CITY, MO–(Marketwire – Jan 10, 2012) - 1102 GRAND announced today that it has successfully completed the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 16 (SSAE 16) Type 2 audit. SSAE 16 is a standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) for service organizations and replaces the previous SAS 70 standard incorporating international controls based on the ISAE 3402 standard. Completion of the SSAE 16 Type 2 required an independent and rigorous examination by an independent Certified Public Accounting firm, Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C., validating that 1102 GRAND has the proper controls in place for the delivery of secure and high availability colocation and interconnection operations.

Greg Elliott, director of business development for 1102 GRAND, said, “The completion of an SSAE 16 Type 2 audit is yet another example of how 1102 GRAND continues to invest in our carrier hotel facility and signifies our ongoing commitment to delivering a high level of quality. For our colocation and interconnection customers, SSAE 16 compliance provides confidence our service organization adheres to the critical processes and operational controls necessary to support their business environments,” said Elliott.

1102 GRAND is a Midwestern carrier hotel and network neutral colocation facility specifically enhanced with the infrastructure to host and provide services to an array of global network operators including carriers, service providers and enterprise customers who demand highly secure and connected, customized solutions for their core networking equipment. 1102 GRAND offers a wide array of colocation options including cabinets and private cage space which are connected to a carrier neutral Meet Me Room, housing over 30 carriers and service providers (http://1102grand.com/) Twitter @1102grand and Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/pages/1102-GRAND/106559716056523

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Kansas City Data Center & Internet Hub, 1102 GRAND, Hosts 6th Annual Golf Tournament & Networking Event for Technology Companies

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

By: Greg Elliott, Director of Business Development at 1102 GRAND

Thank you to all the golfers, sponsors and Deer Creek Golf Club for another successful golf tournament and IT networking event. The competition was fierce yet friendly and great connections were made.

Congratulations to the winners:
1st Place- Bluebird Network: Mike Brigman, Steve Crane, Don Gehringer and Scott Brown
2nd Place- K&W Underground: Rex Schick, Bill Reidy, Scott Plumb and Dwight Davis
3rd Place- Gary Kapperman, George Porta, Wayne Walker and Connie Walker

Longest Drive- Wayne Walker
Longest Putt- Bill Reidy
Closest to the Pin- DJ Good

Thank you again to our tournament sponsors: Rockefeller Group Technology Solutions (RGTS), K&W Underground, Stanger Industries, Lantel, Time Warner Business Class, KNK Telecom, Westhues Electric, Boulevard Brewery, Clayman Promotions, and Centriq IT Training. We couldn’t have done it without your generosity!

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1102 GRAND, Kansas City’s Data Center & Internet Hub Announces 6th Annual Golf Tournament & IT Networking Event

Monday, September 12th, 2011

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July 2011 IT Networking Event at Boulevard Brewery in Kansas City

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Posted by Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND

EVENT DATE & LOCATION

Summer IT Networking Happy Hour
Thursday, July 28, 2011
5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
(Raffles occur at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.)

Boulevard Brewery, Muehlebach Suite
2501 Southwest Boulevard
Kansas City, MO 64108

The IT Networking Happy Hours provide the unique opportunity to connect with technology industry professionals, exchange innovative ideas and establish beneficial relationships and strategic partnerships to grow your business. The events also promote KC’s assets for the technology sectors and innovators within the industry.

Join us and 300 professionals from the KC region’s technology community at some of the greatest venues Kansas City has to offer for networking. Enjoy Boulevard beer and raffles for some of the hottest tech gadgets available. More Events

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