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New developments are cyber-friendly and bandwidth-heavy
When Manhattan's Time Warner Center opens in February, the 2.6 million-sq.-ft., mixed-use complex promises to deliver the ultimate in technology infrastructure.
"The philosophy of this development is that it will create intra-commerce; residents can live, work, shop and enjoy entertainment entirely contained within the Time Warner Center," states Greg Weldon, VP of OneSource Building Technologies Services, a division of Tyco Electronics. "The other governing philosophy of the development is that it will deliver any type of technical service a tenant might want."
Tyco is providing the horsepower behind the technology pipe dream. Weldon brags that the cable infrastructure will be so robust that every tenant will have sufficient cable to provide any level of bandwidth desired.
In addition to the Time Warner corporate space, which is expected to total about 1 million sq. ft., the center will house a luxury hotel, extravagant condominiums, commercial offices, a performing-arts center, and more...