A fter years of being "repurposed by attrition," as the project team puts it, a building in Plano, Texas, that has housed the city's government operations for 47 years is finally getting a real makeover. The much-needed $8-million face-lift and expansion of the facility, which now centralizes technology, communication and data services for the city's traffic, police, fire department and administration will now become the Plano Technology Services Center, a Tier 3 data center.
In 2011, the City of Plano saw it had a need for a consolidated data center, says Jim Razinha, Plano facilities manager. "We'd outgrown our existing facility, and of course it was not being used for its original purpose when it became a so-called data center, so we thought we would look at some options," he says.