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Former Wonderbread Plant Becomes Internet Hotel

NATICK, MA-In a move that local officials hope will spur additional high-tech development here, the old Wonderbread plant is being converted into an Internet hotel. The 280,000-sf building will host the routers and switchers vital to the World Wide Web.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on December 18, 2000

NATICK, MA-The former Wonderbread plant here is poised to become an Internet hotel. The 280,000-sf building, which will be called TechCommons, is being outfitted to be able to host the routers and switches that enable the World Wide Web to function.

Space in the building, which will be ready for business within a few months, will be leased to a company that runs the Internet, such as AT&T, Level 3 Communications or 360 Networks. Level 3 is laying the fiber-optic cable to the building, which local officials hope will spur additional high-tech development in the area. Whichever company signs on as a tenant will have to develop the secondary fiber and power networks it requires.

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