 Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals, and JSA radio, your voice for tech and telecom on iHeart radio. I'm Jamie Scott-Ukutaya here at the West 7th Center downtown Los Angeles with my friend Mark Gittleman. He is the EVP, the executive vice president of property services at Rising Realty Partners. Mark, welcome to JSA TV. Thank you, happy to be here. Thanks for having us in your amazing facility. I have to say the Rising Family, of course, a known name here in the LA landscape, and can you tell us why the Rising Family name would be attracted to a facility like West 7th Center? West 7th Center was an amazing opportunity when it was brought to us as a potential acquisition. The Rising Name is synonymous with Class A commercial office space in downtown, and it's also synonymous with development throughout the state of California. Having an office component, a development component, and a data center component was very interesting to us because we've developed our own in-house telecom expertise. So when you look at the complexity of that asset and the complexity of that acquisition, it was a perfect fit for all the areas that we have tremendous expertise in and in driving value. You know, we should also mention JLL, the leasing arm here at West 7th Center. They just came out with a really interesting statistic. They predicted that by 2020, the data center space would triple in its growth. What do you see as driving all this capacity and growth? Connected devices, Internet of Things, and content delivery. In our office, we have an average of four devices per person right now. What are they? I don't know. You know, I have an iPad, a laptop, and my phone. You know, we have Apple TVs and all sorts of other things in the office. And that number is only growing as literally everything is becoming connected. But that's kind of a standard answer. You know, people say, oh, you know, HBO and Cinemax and YouTube need more content delivery. And lots of data centers will talk about that necessity of bandwidth driving value. But when you look locally at the proximity of West 7th Center to downtown LA, combined with the number of businesses and new residential development in downtown, it's the perfect recipe for the location, for content providers and delivery services to house their equipment. And also, when you look at the need for the Internet of Things to have ultra low latency, it's the perfect location. It's using the self-driving car, self-flying drone as an example. Do you want that decision about, is that drone landing in the right place being made across the street or somewhere out in the desert? I think it's kind of an obvious solution. For sure, for sure. Location, location, location, particularly in this digital transformation age. And you mentioned earlier the content consumption, its craziness with so much bandwidth needed out there. So how do you as West 7th Center address those needs of those OTTs that we're seeing coming into our data centers quickly here with Google, Netflix, Microsoft, etc. Well, part of the opportunity with West 7th Center is the office was essentially fully occupied. The data center has vacancy, but being the only purpose-built data center in Los Angeles with a massive central plant, phenomenal N plus 1 infrastructure, we're able to deliver exactly what the OTT and the content providers need, both in space, power and in cooling. Whereas in competing buildings, and they're wonderful projects in downtown Los Angeles, if you don't have enough of all three, you can't really win. We have that recipe here to win. Yes, absolutely. I hear it often that the space, power, and cooling capacities here in LA are often at a shortage. So having this facility purpose-built data center, the only one, really got something here. So looking into your crystal ball, can you tell us what is the next one to two years look like for West 7th? Fully occupied. Data center. Great answer. And thank you, Mark, for your time. Really appreciate it. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV. Happy networking.