1547 Chicago Midway Technology Centre

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40 E Garfield Blvd
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1547 Chicago Midway Technology Centre

Year Built: 2023
Ownership: 1547 Critical Systems Realty (fifteenfortyseven) owns the building.
Lot Size: 5 acres
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In 2025, a joint venture formed by Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, LLC and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (“1547”) acquired this data center from CIM Group. The 230,000 square-foot hardened warehouse – a National Register of Historic Places building located on the South Side of Chicago – addresses the strong demand in the Chicago colocation and data center market. The building is converted into a Tier III data center with over 52,000 square feet of high-power density raised floor space for Phase I.

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40 E Garfield Blvd
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3.96 miles QTS: Chicago Campus
The campus was a former Sun Times Press Facility and was acquired in 2014
4.06 miles QTS: Chicago 2
QTS is developing 366,000 sq ft (34,000 sqm) of data center space across three stories, alongside 80,000 sq ft (7,432 sqm) of office and loading areas in its Chicago Campus.
4.06 miles Centersquare: Chicago ORD1(B, C & D)
Digital Realty Trust owns the building at 350 Cermak and is CTL's Landlord.
4.07 miles Deft: Downtown CH1
4.09 miles Centersquare: Chicago ORD1
Centersquare's ORD1 site is located in the heart of the Chicago Financial District on the 7th floor of an 8-story building on a fiber-linked campus.
4.09 miles Steadfast Chicago 350 E Cermak
4.09 miles Digital Realty: ORD10
Digital Realty acquired the colocation services business of Hivelocity in 2025.
4.09 miles Equinix Chicago CH1, CH2, & CH4
Equinix distinctly separates CH1, CH2, and CH4 into separate data centers, but in reality, the sites are in the same building.
4.09 miles Colocation America CH1
4.09 miles QTS: Chicago 3
QTS plans to build another data center building on its Chicago Campus.
4.76 miles CoreSite Chicago CH2
In February 2018, CoreSite acquired a two-acre land parcel in downtown Chicago, Illinois, on which CoreSite built CH2, a greenfield development of a 175,000-square-foot, turn-key, four-story data center supporting 18 critical megawatts of power capacity. The building was completed in June 2020.
5.32 miles DataBank (ORD2) 840 S Canal
5.32 miles Server Farm Realty 840 South Canal
4 MW Critical Load on Each Floor (Floors 1-5) 130-160 Watts per Raised Floor SF
5.39 miles First Communications Chicago
5.39 miles 725 S Wells - 1547 Critical Systems
In 2025, a joint venture formed by Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, LLC and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (“1547”) acquired this data center from CIM Group.
5.39 miles Crown Castle 725 S Wells
5.40 miles TierPoint Chicago Polk
5.41 miles Netrality Chicago: 717 S Wells
The 10 story building was constructed in 1923 and eventually was converted into a data center.
5.43 miles Metro Edge: Illinois Medical District (IMD)
Commercial real estate investment firm Metro Edge Development is building a data center in Chicago, Illinois.
5.49 miles Lumen Chicago 5
5.49 miles Colocation America CH2
5.49 miles Cogent: 600 S Federal
5.50 miles Digital Realty: Chicago ORD11
5.50 miles DataBank (ORD1) 600 S Federal
5.61 miles CoreSite Chicago CH1
Once owned by the Western Union company, the building was formerly known as "The Telegraph Building."
5.61 miles Cogent: 427 S LaSalle
5.61 miles 365 Chicago
The site is a former Switch and Data site (also owned by Equinix for a short period.)
5.63 miles QuadraNet Chicago
5.65 miles Legacy: Chicago Byte Exchange CBE1
An affiliate of real estate firm Prime Group bought an office building in Chicago from options exchange company Cboe Global Markets for $12 million.
5.69 miles Related Digital: Chicago, IL
Related Digital is planning a 430-acre campus in Chicago, Illinois, at the old US Steel South Works location.
5.70 miles Related Digital: Chicago Expansion
5.79 miles Cogent: 216 W Jackson
5.87 miles Verizon: 140 S Dearborn
6.16 miles Lumen Chicago 6
6.19 miles EXA - 111 North Canal
Former GTT suite
6.19 miles Lumen Chicago 1
6.31 miles Lumen Chicago 3
7.12 miles Lumen Chicago 4
7.26 miles Lumen Chicago 2
7.99 miles Digital Crossroad: Hammond, IN (Phase 2)
Digital Crossroad is planning to expand its campus in Hammond, Indiana. The company plans to add another 180,000 sq ft (16,720 sqm) building in the second phase.
8.08 miles Digital Crossroad (Indiana NAP)
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12.75 miles Lumen Broadview
15.08 miles Digital Realty: Franklin Park Expansion
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15.11 miles Tierpoint Chicago West
15.19 miles Digital Realty: ORD13
15.21 miles Digital Realty: ORD14
15.21 miles Digital Chicago Franklin Park Campus on Grand Ave - Digital Realty
Digital Chicago is a master-planned 40-acre campus in the Village of Franklin Park. The campus has 3 existing buildings, totaling 574,994 sqft
15.23 miles Digital Realty: Chicago ORD12
15.33 miles Digital Realty: ORD15
In 2017, Digital Realty acquired the former Motorola Headquarters site in Franklin Park and subsequently converted it into a data center.
15.82 miles Verizon: Swift Dr
15.82 miles DataBank (ORD4) Oak Brook
15.82 miles LexusNexis Oak Brook
16.63 miles Verizon: (Oak Brook)
16.63 miles US Signal Oakbrook IL01
800a 480V 3 phase 450kW diesel generator with 24 hour run time at full load 500kVa UPS capacity with battery backup
16.63 miles Server Farm Oak Brook
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16.73 miles NYI Chicago (Oak Brook)
17.14 miles 505 N Railroad Ave - Digital Realty
The Digital Chicago Campus covers 21 acres of land with access to major fiber networks and can support up to 8 MW of IT load at N+1 redundancies.
17.17 miles Aligned Chicago ORD-01
Aligned's ORD-01 data center is a state-of-the-art facility located in Northlake, IL, just outside of downtown Chicago. At full build, Aligned’s Chicago campus covers 520,000 sq. ft. and offers ~ 100 MW of critical load.
17.18 miles Aligned ORD-02
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17.53 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
17.85 miles T5: Chicago lll
T5@Chicago III will be build-to-suit, with the company spending more than $500 million to develop a three-story, 250,000 sq ft facility for multi-tenant or single-tenant operations.
18.01 miles Equinix Chicago CH7
19.91 miles Iron Mountain Chicago
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fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty ("1547") is a leading developer and operator of custom-designed data centers with over 1,300,000 SF of data center space in Orangeburg, NY; Toronto, ON; Chicago, IL (2); Cheyenne, WY; San Francisco, CA; Kapolei, HI; Milwaukee, WI; and Portland, OR. Central to the company's strategy is its ability to uncover the true intrinsic value of properties and opportunistically develop world-class data center facilities. 1547's focus is providing tenants with strategic, customized mission critical solutions from concept through completion.

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