Peterson: Leesburg Gateway Campus
Peterson Companies, through its affiliate Leesburg Gateway, LLC, is proposing a significant data center and industrial development on a 100-acre site in Leesburg, Virginia.
Peterson Companies, one of the largest privately-owned real estate development companies in the DC region, consistently delivers some of the area's most exciting destinations. Over the past 53 years, the company has created exceptional landmarks such as National Harbor, Downtown Silver Spring, Fair Lakes, and Fairfax Corner. With a proven ability to move quickly on opportunities to reshape and enhance local communities, Peterson Companies creates vibrant residential and business districts that benefit all who live and work in the region. Combined with its extensive real estate portfolio of mixed-use retail, residential and office developments are several other companies and investments, such as Vizuri Health Sciences, that together, reflect the company's commitment to improve the lifestyles of those who share the place they call home.
Peterson Companies, through its affiliate Leesburg Gateway, LLC, is proposing a significant data center and industrial development on a 100-acre site in Leesburg, Virginia.
Dubbed Project Sisson, the development calls for 16 two-story data center buildings totaling an immense 3.8 million square feet.
Peterson Companies has obtained approval for its 150-acre data center campus. The campus is located on land along Route 799 (McDevitt Drive) and Route 699 (East Chandler Street) in Culpeper and will span 2,049,058 SF.
Peterson Companies plans to construct two data centers in Dulles, Virginia. The data center project will be situated near 22900 Platform Plaza, west of Sully Road and south of S. Sterling Boulevard, in Loudoun County. Dubbed the Silverbrook Project, the company intends to develop two 27,000 sq ft (2,500 sqm) buildings on the currently undeveloped 16-acre site.
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