ViaSat Breaks Ground on $18M Corporate Campus

DULUTH, GA-ViaSat, touted in the high-tech community as one of the 100 fastest growing tech companies in the US, has signed a 10-year-lease with Phoenix-based Levine Investments which is erecting a 143,000-sf build-to-suit corporate campus for the Carlsbad, CA-based firm on a 15.5-acre tract in the two-million-sf Breckinridge Park in this Atlanta suburb.

ViaSat searched 51 sites in six counties before Ben Logue, a senior vice president at Atlanta-based Colliers Cauble, found the local site. “We scoured the metro Atlanta area for the right location and Breckinridge proved to be the perfect fit for ViaSat,” Logue says. The park offers the high-tech amenities required by ViaSat’s office and manufacturing operations, “as well as great access for its growing employee base,” the broker adds. ViaSat has a staff of 214 workers.

The first phase of the Gwinnett County development includes a two-story, 63,000-sf, class A office building; an 80,000-sf facility for antenna engineering, fabrication and manufacturing; and an outdoor antenna staging pad to enable the buildup and testing of completed antenna systems. The remaining 3.5 acres, reserved for future expansion in the second phase of the development, will be tentatively used for employee recreation facilities.