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CoreSite Realty is a data center REIT with a focus on network dense buildings. The company operates the Any2 Peering Exchange, which is the largest Internet Exchange in the Western US.

CoreSite History

CoreSite Realty Corporation was founded in 2001 as CRG West, a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group. CRG West initially started with two data center buildings; One Wilshire in Los Angeles and 55 South Market in San Jose. The buildings were popular network interconnection and peering points. Although 55 S Market has declined as an interconnection point, One Wilshire continues to be a popular building for network interconnection.

2007: Sold the Company's Jewel to Fuel Expansion

In August, the company sold the One Wilshire Building to Hines REIT for $287 million. The large transaction gave CRG West additional capital to fund the company's growth into new markets.

In May, CRG West acquires buildings in Chicago (for $34 million) and Sommerville just outside of Boston. The Chicago building at 427 S LaSalle was originally designed and built by Western Union. Western Union buildings have traditionally been converted into Carrier Hotels because the telegraph infrastructure with their risers of conduits works well for the telecom industry. The facility is situated across from One Financial Plaza and adjacent to the Chicago Board of Trade.

CoreSite Boston at 70 Innerbelt Road, Somerville, MA is located less than two miles from downtown Boston and Cambridge. The large building has SunGard and Internap as significant tenants also offering colocation

2008: Added Reston

CRG West acquired their Reston facility at 12100 Sunrise Valley.

2009: Rebranded

CRG West rebranded as CoreSite.

2010: IPO added More Capital to Expand

In September, CoreSite became publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: COR). The Carlyle Group still owned ~50% of the newly public company at the time of the IPO. The Carlyle Group has since reduced their ownership to less than 30%.

2012 Added Denver

In April, CoreSite acquired Comfluent and their two Denver data centers. The data centers were small, but pivotal to the Denver Interconnection and Peering Market. DE1 is located in 910 15th Street, Denver's Telecom Hotel, the Denver Gas & Electric Building (DGEB.) Comfluent was the defacto meet me room for the building. DE2 was 639 E 18th Ave, which was adjacent to Level 3's Denver Gateway site.

CoreSite was headquarted in Denver, but until 2012 did not have any data centers in Colorado.

2013

SV5 was built and leased to a single tenant

2014: New Buildings

  • VA2 launched with an initial build of 50,000 of 198,000 sqft
  • NY2 launched with an initial build of 65,000 of 283,000 sqft

2016: Change at the Top

Tom Ray, CoreSite's CEO since inception retired. Paul Szurek became CoreSites new CEO.

In August, Sunrise Technology Park (STP) was acquired for $60 million with a plan to significantly expand the campus.

Reston Campus Expansions

12100 Sunrise Valley was first acquired in 2008 and CoreSite has since turned the Reston site into a campus. The company constructed a building (VA2) in the parking lot. In 2018, Coresite acquired a 22-acre lot a few blocks away at 12379 Sunrise Valley Drive. The lot will serve to virtually expand the Reston Campus.

The development has four phases and involves building new 3-story data centers and demolishing the old buildings. CoreSite has begun work on VA3 on the new lot.

27 Facilities Owned

10 Markets Served

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CoreSite Data Center Map

CoreSite Locations

CoreSite Reston VA3

As part of VA3 Phase 1B, CoreSite will build the shell of an 80,000 Gross sqft, 12 megawatt building, and a 77,000 NRSF centralized infrastructure building. which will serve the entire VA3 property.

CoreSite Somerville BO1

CoreSite’s Boston data center (BO1) borders Cambridge and Boston’s central business district, serving the many healthcare, financial, technological and educational enterprises located in the area.

DataSite Atlanta

Freestanding Building on Approximately 7 Acres that is outside the 500 year flood plain

CoreSite Miami MI1

CoreSite’s MI1 data center in Miami provides connectivity from the U.S. to South America, as well as existing and scalable connectivity to NAP of the Americas. Built to withstand a Category 5 hurricane.

CoreSite Los Angeles (LA2) 900 N Alameda

CoreSite's LA2 facility at 900 N Alameda is an elegant building that was built in 1940 as a Postal Annex. It was the central mail processing facility for Los Angeles until 1989. The site is now owned by CoreSite and is being incrementally converted to data center space.

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.

CoreSite DE2

CoreSite DE2

Located in Denver

This is the legacy Comfluent Denver 2 site that is adjacent to the Level 3's Denver gateway site

CoreSite Los Angeles (LA1) One Wilshire

CoreSite's Any2 IXP (Peering Exchange) is the largest public IXP in the Western United States. The Unity Trans-Pacific submarine cable, also lands in the building, which provides undersea connectivity to Asia.

CoreSite Denver DE1

Acquired from Comfluent, data center has the acted as the defacto building Meet-Me Room until 910Telecom set up its own MMR.

CoreSite Data Center Photos


427 S LaSalle: 1st Floor Layout
Posted in CoreSite Chicago CH1

427 S LaSalle: 5th Floor Layout
Posted in CoreSite Chicago CH1
Source: CoreSite

427 S LaSalle: 6th Floor Layout
Posted in CoreSite Chicago CH1
Source: CoreSite

Western Union Building with Chicago Board of Trade in the Background
Posted in CoreSite Chicago CH1

CH1 Entrance to "The Telegraph Building"
Posted in CoreSite Chicago CH1
Source: CoreSite

Outside of CoreSite's MI1 in Miami
Posted in CoreSite Miami MI1
Source: CoreSite

Security Desk at CoreSite MI1
Posted in CoreSite Miami MI1
Source: CoreSite

Customer Colocation Floor Space at CoreSite's MI1 Site
Posted in CoreSite Miami MI1
Source: CoreSite
Workers putting on insulation to the exterior of SV7
SV7 Under Construction
Posted in CoreSite Santa Clara Campus

Workers putting on insulation to the exterior of SV7


SV7 Near the End of Construction
Posted in CoreSite Santa Clara Campus
Source: MATT Construction

CoreSite SV7 Completed
Posted in CoreSite Santa Clara Campus
CoreSite SV4 was completed in 2011
SV4 at 2972 Stender
Posted in CoreSite Santa Clara Campus

CoreSite SV4 was completed in 2011


CoreSite SV4 from the Air
Posted in CoreSite Santa Clara Campus

CoreSite SV7 from the Air
Posted in CoreSite Santa Clara Campus

CoreSite's Market Post Tower (SV1)
Posted in CoreSite SV1 55 S Market
55 S. Market is an iconic 1980’s era building in the historic core of downtown San Jose.
Recently Remodeled Lobby of 55 S Market
Posted in CoreSite SV1 55 S Market

55 S. Market is an iconic 1980’s era building in the historic core of downtown San Jose.

Source: DCM

CoreSite VA3 Under Construction
Posted in CoreSite Reston VA3
Source: CoreSite

View of VA2 from the Entrance of VA1
Posted in CoreSite Reston Campus VA1 VA2

Conference Room in VA2
Posted in CoreSite Reston Campus VA1 VA2
Source: CoreSite

Lobby of VA2
Posted in CoreSite Reston Campus VA1 VA2
Source: CoreSite

Exterior View
Posted in CoreSite Somerville BO1
Source: CoreSite

CoreSite Office Area on 1st Floor
Posted in CoreSite Los Angeles (LA1) One Wilshire
Source: COR

Cabinet Colocation Area
Posted in CoreSite Los Angeles (LA2) 900 N Alameda
Source: COR

Large Concrete Columns Throughout Building
Posted in CoreSite Los Angeles (LA2) 900 N Alameda

New Chiller Enclosures at SV8
Posted in CoreSite Santa Clara Campus
CoreSite's SV8 building is starting to take shape. (January 2019)
SV8 Under Construction
Posted in CoreSite Santa Clara Campus

CoreSite's SV8 building is starting to take shape. (January 2019)

For the price of a cross-connect one can order an "extended cross connect" between CoreSite's LA data centers. This allows a customer to deploy in the more robust data center (LA2) while taking adv...
CoreSite Operated Fiber Paths between LA1 and LA2/LA3
Posted in CoreSite Los Angeles (LA2) 900 N Alameda

For the price of a cross-connect one can order an "extended cross connect" between CoreSite's LA data centers. This allows a customer to deploy in the more robust data center (LA2) while taking advantage of LA1's network density.


Outside of 1275 K Street - DC's Carrier Hotel
Posted in CoreSite DC1 - 1275 K Street NW

Entrance to CoreSite's DC1
Posted in CoreSite DC1 - 1275 K Street NW
Source: CoreSite

CoreSite NY2 at 2 Emerson Lane
Posted in CoreSite Secaucus NY2
Source: CoreSite

NY2 Cooling Infrastructure
Posted in CoreSite Secaucus NY2
Source: CoreSite

Site Plan for LA3
Posted in CoreSite LA3
Source: ADSP

Rendering of LA3 next to LA2
Posted in CoreSite LA3

CoreSite's Santa Clara Campus
Posted in CoreSite Santa Clara Campus

SV7 Chiller Plant
Posted in CoreSite SV7
The double-stacked Caterpillar generators tower above the equipment yard. The 2.5 megawatt units are raised 8 feet above the yard to ensure clearance far above the 500-year flood stage. They are fe...
NY2 Double-Stacked Generators
Posted in CoreSite Secaucus NY2

The double-stacked Caterpillar generators tower above the equipment yard. The 2.5 megawatt units are raised 8 feet above the yard to ensure clearance far above the 500-year flood stage. They are fed by an 8,500 gallon underground fuel storage tank

Source: CoreSite
The cooling plant features evaporative condensing units and can useair- and water-side economization with variable speed CRAHs. CoreSite is able to use economization for about two-thirds of the yea...
Modular Chiller Plant Generators
Posted in CoreSite Secaucus NY2

The cooling plant features evaporative condensing units and can useair- and water-side economization with variable speed CRAHs. CoreSite is able to use economization for about two-thirds of the year at NY2.

Source: CoreSite

COR CH2 Under Construction in Feb 2020
Posted in CoreSite Chicago CH2

CoreSite SV8
Posted in CoreSite SV8
Source: SV8

Outside of SV8
Posted in CoreSite SV7
Source: CoreSite

Under Construction in 2019
Posted in CoreSite Chicago CH2

An artist rendering of CH2
Posted in CoreSite Chicago CH2
Source: CoreSite

Inside a computer room at CH2
Posted in CoreSite Chicago CH2

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Files

Name Date Added Description
0007-slk-prod-azure-20161219 June 2019

CoreSite marketing slick describing how to make connections from CoreSite locations to Microsoft Azure's ExpressRoute service.

idc-coresite-white-paper September 2018

IDC Vendor Profile for Coresite

credit_suisse-coresite_realty_equity_report-cor-2018 January 2018

CS CoreSite Equity Research Report (2018)

credit_suisse-coresite_realty_equity_report-cor-2017 June 2017

CS CoreSite Equity Research Report (2017)

uscolo_brochure_2011-web-ab468d87-9423-4f50-83f3-454da8541574 June 2011

US Colo brochure (2011)