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Also, wouldn't the premium of leasing or owning "retail" style property make the cost of maintaining the building too costly? I don't think Sears needs a datac
by josefresco 13y ago
Also, wouldn't the premium of leasing or owning "retail" style property make the cost of maintaining the building too costly? I don't think Sears needs a datacenter on main street, or within a strip-mall.
After RTFA I pulled this:
"Farney acknowledges that many of Sears’ mall-based retail locations aren’t viable for data center usage. “I don’t think the industry is yet ready for a mall-based data center,” he said. “That may take some time. The stand-alone location is optimal.”"
It seems they are considering it more for certain stand-alone locations.
- brudgers 13y agoThe real-estate deed for any mall location almost certainly precludes such uses by covenant. If they didn't, Sears would never have bought the property in the first place.
- walshemj 13y agoAnd it woudl be harder to secure you would find it hard to add a moat even adding a proper double fence might be hard in most of these store locations.