Demolition in sight for former HP plant vacated by relocation.
Hewlett-Packard Co. said Friday it plans to demolish a massive, two-building former manufacturing plant on its Rockrimmon Boulevard campus in northwest Colorado Springs early next year after moving employees into a newer adjacent building.
The Palo Alto-based technology giant did not divulge plans for the space after demolition. The 365-acre site next to Ute Valley Park will still house a 300,000-square-foot office building housing a research group, sales, marketing and other operations as well as a 250,000-square-foot corporate data center.
“HP continually evaluates its facilities in order to better use space and provide employees with a more collaborative work environment. As part of that effort, we consolidated space at our Colorado Springs campus and moved employees into an adjacent building. We expect to begin demolition of two buildings by early 2012,” the company said in a statement released in response to questions about the two buildings.
The two buildings total 778,000 square feet of space and were built for Digital Equipment Corp. in 1979 to manufacture high-capacity disk drives used in mainframe computers. Compaq Computer Corp. acquired Digital in 1998 and merged with HP four years later.
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