[BBLISA] co-location

[Debra Douglass]

On 4/4/2004, on ddoug at austin.rr.com, bblisa at bblisa.org, Dean Anderson wrote: 
 >>I'm sorry, I think you are mistaken.  The "four connected buildings"  
 >>describes exactly the facilities at 40 Sylvan Rd. The four buildings
 >>surround an interior courtyard, with a duck pond complete with resident
 >>geese.  There is an entrance off West St, which might seem a lot like
 >>going into Home Depot. However, Home Depot is on First Ave, which is the
 >>block before West St, if you are coming from I95.

Ah, we didn't have anything as elegant as a courtyard or a duck pond at
my GTE facility.  I was completely unaware of a GTE facility on Sylvan
Rd. The only other GTE facility that I ever knew of in Waltham was the
Labs.

 >>The facility may have been closed in 1994, and reopened later--I don't
 >>know, I didn't work there until 1998.  But it wasn't demolished to make
 >>way for Home Depot. You can still go see it.  There is a Verizon sign on
 >>it now.  Also, 40 Sylvan Rd is on about 30 acres, where Home Depot is on
 >>about 5 acres.  Something may have been demolished for Home Depot, and it
 >>may even have belonged to GTE, but this facility wasn't it.

The facility that I am referring to -was- located on First Ave. -not-
Sylvan Rd. The site was sold to Home Depot and my division moved to
Needham.  The division that I worked for was sold to General Dynamics
just before the GTE/Bell Atlantic merger in 2000. We are talking about two
different facilities. 

-Debra
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