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Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT II, Inc. today announced that it has acquired Sylva Medical Office Building.

Software giant Microsoft is considering a site at an Alamance County industrial parkto build a massive data storage center facility.

In a sign that financial institutions may be opening their wallets again or a sign that the long wait during the recession is being pushed by IT demand, Boston-based Fidelity Investments is planning to build a $100m datacenter in Garner, North Carolina. Garner is just outside of Raleigh. The planned 100,000-square-foot facility will provide [...]

Fidelity Investments is scouting sites for a major data center in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, and is said to be in talks to finalize a deal to build in Garner, a suburb of Raleigh, according to local media. The company is likely to invest at least $60 million in the new 100,000 [...]

Campus Apartments, the oldest and one of the largest privately held student housing companies in the nation, has expanded its third party management portfolio to include 14 new properties.

Note: The Skinny blog is written by Rick Smith, editor and co-founder of Local Tech Wire and business editor of WRAL.com.
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – North Carolina is the best place in the U.S. for a company to locate a new data center, says a new report from consulting firm Tishman Technologies.
The New York company [...]

RALEIGH — State film boosters said this week a more generous tax credit agreed to by Gov. Beverly Perdue should help return more lights, cameras and action to North Carolina with more movie and television deals — and ultimately more jobs.
In a ceremony at the old Capitol building, Perdue signed into law a bill approved [...]

Experts are weighing in on possible plans for the “huge” data center Apple is building in North Carolina. One believes it is to bring content delivery in-house, while another is betting on a cloud computing initiative.
Apple isn’t even close to bringing its planned east coast data center online, but there is already some speculation about [...]

Want to supply fiber optic cable to Apple Inc.? Or maybe mow the grass?
Now that an Apple data center is officially coming to Maiden, in southern Catawba County,  lots of people will want a bite.
It’s way too early to apply for one of the 50 jobs that will be filled when the 500,000-square foot center [...]