Hackman Capital - 226 North Fifth Street Carrier Hotel

Status: Operational   |   Location: 226 North Fifth Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215, USA

Project Overview

Originally constructed in 1918 as the historic headquarters for the Central Ohio Paper Company, the 139,000-square-foot property at 226 North Fifth Street has been extensively reimagined and structurally retrofitted by Hackman Capital Partners. Located in downtown Columbus, this multi-tenant carrier hotel serves as an essential interconnection point and telecom nexus for the Midwest digital corridor. By combining its original rugged industrial architecture with modern mission-critical support components, the building provides specialized, adaptive office suites and heavily fortified colocation shells ranging from 4,378 up to 28,393 square feet. The strategic value of 226 North Fifth Street centers on its position inside the AT&T downtown zero-mile local loop, making it a natural magnet for major global network operators, internet service providers, and cloud transit networks. The building functions as a multi-tenant tech hub, housing distinct, independently operated data center facilities under one roof, including Lumen Technologies (Suites 100 and 150), WOW! Business/E Solutions, and the primary point-of-presence for ICS. The interior space features 26,000 square feet of optimized raised-floor data halls, with pre-approved structural scaling pathways to expand up to 52,000 square feet as tenant density warrants. To support continuous network uptime, the property features specialized roof rights with a completely unobstructed line of sight to the north, east, and west, allowing tenants to mount complex satellite arrays, point-to-point microwave antennas, and wireless carrier systems. By maintaining rigorous, audit-ready building compliance controls like SSAE 16 Type II and PCI DSS, the facility effectively bridges vintage industrial stability with modern high-capacity transcontinental routing arrays.

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