1102 GRAND is located in the heart of downtown Kansas
City, Missouri’s Financial District and is an
architecturally and historically significant landmark
in the Kansas City skyline. The 26 story high-rise (331
feet) was completed in 1931 and has been home to many
influential professionals over the past 76 years. Today,
1102 GRAND is the largest carrier neutral facility in
the Kansas City Metro area and is one of the fastest
growing of its kind in the Midwest. The building serves
as a major hub for voice and data traffic in the region
by providing a facility with the necessary infrastructure
for carriers, service providers, and enterprise customers
to do business together reliably and cost effectively.
1102
GRAND provides vast connectivity options for voice and
data communication tenants. Since the building is located
directly on Kansas City’s major metropolitan fiber
ring, the who’s who of the telecommunication industry,
including Williams Communications (now Level 3), MCI
(now Verizon Business), and SBC (now AT&T) along
with a very respectable and diverse group of regional
carriers, service providers, and enterprise customers
have built data centers, nodes, and/or Points of Presence
(POPs) at 1102 GRAND. These tenants then extend into
our carrier neutral Meet Me Room to interconnect with
one another and provide service to other entities. Best
of all, 1102 GRAND does not charge for cross connects
in our Meet Me Room thereby reducing the cost of doing
business at 1102 GRAND so carriers can increase profitability
or pass the savings onto their customers.
Moreover, 1102 GRAND
has the luxury of being located on dual power grids.
That means the building’s primary power is supplied
from two separate Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L)
sources, and if one of the power grids fails, the other
will automatically start supplying power to the building.
1102 GRAND is one of only a few buildings in downtown
Kansas City to be configured in this manner.
The
ownership group of 1102 GRAND invested nearly $10 million
through the purchase and renovation process to transform
1102 GRAND into a full service carrier hotel including
improvements to power and HVAC capacity, reliability,
and access. In addition, special requirements for redundant
fiber entrances into the building, an internal riser
conduit system, rooftop improvements for wireless providers,
and a carrier neutral Meet Me Room (MMR) / Meet Me Cage
(MMC) were also addressed.
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