ATLANTA: Get on the Gigabit Bandwagon

Sometimes technology's impact on real estate has less to do with square footage and more to do with gigabits. (Gigafootage? Sqaure Gigs? Squig Bytage?) For North American Properties, that issue is to be one of the top priorities in all its new developments, says the firm's John Kelley. NAP made headlines last year when it announced it would install gigabit Internet connectivity at its Avalon mixed-use project in Atlanta. John tells us it's already made a huge difference with prospective tenants. Like Wakefield Beasley, an Atlanta architectural firm that inked a deal for its HQ there. John says the firm typically downloads huge files (renderings and what not) that eat away at average bandwidth. With its connection pipeline, mundane online tasks won't be slowed due to big downloads, he says.

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