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Enfrastructure Scouring Denver for High-Tech Campus

DENVER-Denver is being ticketed for a 150,000-sf to 200,000-sf office campus tailored for young technology companies on their way up. The California-based firm hopes to eventually have 25 high-tech campuses worldwide.

By John Rebchook | Updated on September 20, 2000

DENVER-This city is being ticketed for a 150,000-sf to 200,000-sf office campus tailored for young technology companies on their way up. The campus is the brainstorm of Enfrastructure, an Alisa Viejo, CA-based, firm that has raised more than $100 million in financing from such heavyweights as Microsoft, IBM and Arthur Anderson.

Plans call for the campus to open in first quarter 2001, following on the heels of one opening in Orange County, CA. “Either Denver or New York will be second and third,” says James Watson, president. In early 2001, Enfrastructure plans to open a campus in Hong Kong, home port for investor Hanny Holdings Ltd., an optical and storage media maker and distributor. In all, 25 campuses, ranging in size from 150,000 sf to 500,000 sf, are in the firm’s long-range international plan.

Watson founded the company along with Scott Blum, who has ties to Denver. Blum is the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded buy.com and Think Tank, an incubator operation.Enfrastructure will offer services from its financial backers that promise to reduce front-end company costs by as much as 90% and ongoing business functions by 25% to 40%. The realized savings can be applied to core operations, says Watson. “This is not an incubator although it will have an incubator component,” he told GlobeSt.com. Eventually, the services provided by partnering companies will be outsourced to existing businesses, says Watson, noting some Fortune 500 firms already have expressed interest in the offering.

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