Digital Realty: 725 E. Trade

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Digital Realty: 725 E. Trade

Year Planned: 2028
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Digital Realty, a US operator, has purchased a 1920s office building in Charlotte, North Carolina, for $9.5 million and plans to demolish it to make way for a new data center. The property, known as the Court Arcade building (725 E. Trade St.), was acquired from Shamrock Management Corp. earlier in 2025.

This acquisition is part of a larger $16 million land purchase of two adjacent parcels, located next to Digital Realty's existing Charlotte facility. Digital Trade Street 2, an affiliate of Digital Realty, intends to construct a four-story data center on the site, though a development timeline has not yet been announced.

Site History


Built in the 1920s, the Court Arcade building is a two-story, 18,575-square-foot office structure located in uptown Charlotte's First Ward. Historically, it was designed to house attorneys needing easy access to the nearby Mecklenburg County Courthouse, and it currently serves as home to several law firms and the headquarters for the Mecklenburg County Democratic Party. Shamrock Management Corp. had owned the building since March 1997, when they acquired it for just over $1 million, before selling it to Digital Realty for $9.5 million as part of the total $16 million land acquisition. Digital Realty plans to demolish this structure to build a four-story data center adjacent to its existing facility.

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0.02 miles 731 East Trade - Digital Realty
0.04 miles CENTRA: 701 E Trade
Deep Edge Realty Charlotte is centrally located at the fiber nexus of Charlotte, near the Spectrum Center and AT&T's central office.
0.04 miles Digital Realty: CLT10
A 29,200 square feet purpose-built facility at 113 North Myers Street in North Carolina
0.05 miles Lumen Charlotte 2
0.06 miles TierPoint North Myers CL2
TierPoint’s Charlotte-North Myers facility is one of seven interconnected facilities in North Carolina providing Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), cloud services, managed services and more.
0.22 miles TAC: Charlotte, NC
Situated on a 275-acre greenfield site in Charlotte, North Carolina, the TAC I HS data center is a hyperscale project by TAC Data Centers.
0.22 miles 5CDC: Charlotte, NC
5C Group is developing a data center in Charlotte, North Carolina, with an ambitious plan to scale its capacity up to 1.6 gigawatts (GW) when fully built out.
0.22 miles TAC: Charlotte Expansion
0.66 miles Lumen Charlotte 3
0.79 miles Spectrum Networks: Charlotte
4.80 miles Lumen Charlotte 4
4.80 miles Charlotte Colocation Center
5.67 miles Altos Charlotte NC
5.85 miles NaviSite Charlotte
5.85 miles Tier.Net Charlotte
5.97 miles Lumen Charlotte 1
5.98 miles TierPoint Charlotte: Rose Lake
This facility is audited under SSAE 18 SOC 2 Type II, PCI-DSS*, GLBA and HIPAA standards annually and is ITAR and EU-US Privacy Shield registered.
6.08 miles First Data Charlotte
6.08 miles Lumos Charlotte (DC74 CLT4)
Lumos acquired the site when the company acquired DC74 Data Centers in February of 2017. The facility is located a couple of miles from the Charlotte Douglas International Airport
6.08 miles Segra: 3101 International Airport
The site is a former XO Communications facility
6.17 miles ScaleMatrix Charlotte
6.17 miles TierPoint Charlotte 4
• 2N power design
• Each customer cabinet served by redundant A-Side/B-Side power feeds
6.17 miles Caronet 1960 Cross Beam
6.18 miles Mapletree: 1805 Center Park
7.07 miles Spectrum Charlotte National Data Center
8.24 miles Flexential Charlotte 1, 2, 3
8.30 miles LightHouse: CLT02
8.48 miles H5 Charlotte
8.48 miles Flexential Charlotte 4
9.42 miles Digital Realty: CLT20
Digital Realty wants to rezone 156 acres to build a new data center campus, allowing for up to 3 million square feet of telecommunications and data storage space.
9.42 miles Digital Realty: CLT21
This planned facility will be part of Digital Realty's CLT20 campus in Charlotte, North Carolina.
10.14 miles PowerHouse: Charlotte, NC
PowerHouse Data Center Charlotte, NC, is located close to a Duke Energy substation and could see up to 2.5 million sq ft (232,260 sqm) of data center space developed.
11.23 miles Project Accelerate
The rezoning application for 'Project Accelerate,' a proposed data center in Matthews, North Carolina, has been withdrawn.
19.85 miles QTS York County (Charlotte)

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Digital Realty acquired a 1920s office building in Charlotte, North Carolina
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Digital Realty Trust is a data center public REIT that owns and operates facilities in the United States and Europe. The company provides colocation and interconnection services and develops large multi‑tenant data centers for enterprise and cloud customers.

Its European platform expanded through the combination with Interxion, and through the purchase of European sites divested by Equinix following Equinix’s acquisition of TelecityGroup. The Telx acquisition added a U.S. interconnection and colocation business to Digital Realty’s portfolio.

Digital Realty Trust History:

  • In March 2020 completed the combination with Interxion, expanding its European platform.
  • In September 2017 completed the merger with DuPont Fabros Technology.
  • In July 2016 acquired eight European data centers from Equinix that were divested as part of Equinix’s TelecityGroup acquisition.
  • In October 2015 completed the acquisition of Telx.
  • On October 28, 2004 priced its initial public offering at 12 dollars per share.
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