Milhaus Seeks Building Permit for Highland Row

VOL. 7 | NO. 47 | Saturday, November 15, 2014

Expedient Data Centers, a leading provider of cloud computing and other related services, is expanding into the Memphis market.

The company is getting its latest state-of-the-art data center ready to open by July 1 at 3180 Players Lane, close to the TPC Southwind Golf Course and FedEx headquarters. That will be Expedients first data center in Tennessee and the 11th facility Expedient operates across seven markets.

Expedient serves a mix of local and national companies who decide to host critical business computing systems and related applications in secure, purpose-built redundant facilities. Once the Memphis facility is up and running it will include about 7,500 square feet of raised flood computing space with a total of 35,000 square feet available in the building.

Indianapolis-based developer Milhaus Ventures has applied for another building permit for the long-awaited Highland Row project near the University of Memphis.

The company has applied for a $6.75 million building permit through the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement for construction of a four-story apartment building at 387 S. Highland St., the first piece in the $61 million Highland Row project. In October, Milhous applied for a $20 million permit for the project.

The mixed-use Highland Row development will include 354 apartments, 35 townhomes, a parking garage and 26,000 square feet of retail space. Memphis-based Poag Shopping Centers originally planned to develop Highland Row, but those plans were shelved following the recession.

In an email to potential supporters this week, Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. says his re-election plans are definite and he is "running to win."

The email comes after Wharton's campaign sent out invitations late last month to a Nov. 17 fundraiser at the Memphis Botanic Garden.

Wharton has said several times in the last year that he would seek a second full four-year term of office. He has also faced an increasingly critical City Council in that time as well as some less public criticism in some quarters of the city's business community.

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Milhaus Seeks Building Permit for Highland Row