By Greg Moberly,
gregm@theunion.com
December 3, 2007
OTHER
NEWS.....
Tech Center Expands
(The Union - December 3, 2007)
Technology & Trees
(PDF)
(Nevada County Business News - December 2007)
2Wire eyes bigger slice of tech area
(The Union - May 2, 2007)
Building a Future for Our Children
(The Union - May 1, 2007)
Tech firms promise shining future
for Nevada County
(The Union - January 16, 2007)
Tech Center to open offices in
Spring
(The Union - September 9, 2006)
A good fit for Larkspur
Landing
(Marin Independent Journal - August 25, 2005)
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TECH CENTER
EXPANDS
Unique Office Building Set for Spring Finish
A unique, single story professional office building in
Nevada City's Tech Center is slated for April 2008 completion according to
the project's agent, Lock Richards.
Liberty Hill - a 10,500-square-foot building under construction at 330
Providence Mine Road - will be the second technical center building to be
finished. It will join the building occupied by 2Wire, which chiefly makes
DSL modems for companies such as AT&T. 2Wire opened earlier this year.
When Liberty Hill is finished, work on a medical and dental building within
the tech center complex is slated to start in the spring and could be
finished within nine to 12 months, Richards said. After that, a speculative
office building could be completed, he added.
The complex, on land at the edge of the Seven Hills
District in Nevada City formerly owned by Grass Valley Group, marks the
first business center to be built in the area in decades. The Whispering
Pines area, in eastern Grass Valley, was started in the late 1980s and is
nearly built out.
The new construction offers an important option for small businesses that
are growing out of their spaces, with few commercial buildings available
that offer the latest technological infrastructure.
Western Nevada County has lost some local businesses due to lack of such
space in recent years.
"We're beginning to market the building to the possible buyers," said
Richards, managing director with Sperry Van Ness/Highland Commercial.
About seven spaces range in size from 1,100 to 1,800
square feet, designed to appeal to attorneys, architects, engineers,
insurance companies and financial advisors, Richards said.
Some companies may take up more than one of the seven spaces, and
theoretically could occupy the entire building, Richards said.
Interested businesses won't lease the space. Instead, the spaces will be
sold as a kind of commercial condominium, making the building unusual for
the area, Richards said.
"There's nothing really like it in the marketplace,"
Richards said.
Businesses moving into the Craftsman-influenced building will have private,
ground-level access to their individual business, and no common hallways
will be between the businesses, Richards said.
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