Enfrastructure Inc

The much-ballyhooed but untested concept of building a national chain of business technology campuses--envisioned by Buy.com Inc. founder Scott A. Blum--will be backed by Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp. and $100 million. At a splashy New York news conference set to a Hollywood-style score, Blum and partner Jim Watson unveiled plans Tuesday for their Aliso Viejo-based venture, called Enfrastructure Inc.

After months of secrecy, Enfrastructure Inc. revealed a list of tenants at its high-tech office complex in Aliso Viejo, a full-service hotel of sorts for young businesses. They include an Internet application provider from Pittsburgh, a one-man software firm and a hush-hush start-up known as Tribal Knowledge.

After months of secrecy, Enfrastructure Inc. revealed a list of tenants at its high-tech office complex in Aliso Viejo, a full-service hotel of sorts for young businesses. They include an Internet application provider from Pittsburgh, a one-man software firm and a hush-hush start-up known as Tribal Knowledge.

On the ground floor, tenants will be able to drop off dry-cleaning, attend yoga classes or catch shut-eye in one of five sleep rooms. The coffee bar that serves up the day's first blast of caffeine will become a juice bar after noon and a pub after 5 p.m. The top three levels feature offices with movable, Lego-style walls designed to flex with tech companies' accordion-like expansions and contractions.

On the ground floor, tenants will be able to drop off dry-cleaning, attend yoga classes or catch shut-eye in one of five sleep rooms. The coffee bar that serves up the day's first blast of caffeine will become a juice bar after noon and a pub after 5 p.m. The top three levels feature offices with movable, Lego-style walls designed to flex with tech companies' accordion-like expansions and contractions.

The much-ballyhooed national chain of business campuses envisioned by Buy.com Inc. founder Scott A. Blum will be backed by a cadre of industry blue chips like Microsoft Corp. and International Business Machines Corp.--and $100 million. At a splashy New York press conference set to a Hollywood-style score, Blum and partner Jim Watson unveiled plans Tuesday for their Aliso Viejo-based venture, called Enfrastructure Inc.

On the ground floor, tenants will be able to drop off dry cleaning, attend yoga classes or catch shut-eye in one of five sleep rooms. The coffee bar that serves up the day's first blast of caffeine will become a juice bar after noon and a pub after 5 p.m. The top three levels feature offices with movable, Lego-style walls designed to flex with tech companies' accordion-like expansions and contractions.

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Moving to capitalize on a booming market, Shea Properties said Tuesday it plans to build one of the largest office projects in South Orange County, a 1.5-million-square-foot campus in Aliso Viejo that would cost $350 million. The developer has lined up financing for the first phase of the Vantis complex--a five-story, 150,000-square-foot office building that is expected to cost $30 million, said Jack Godard, senior vice president of the company's Southern California division.

Catherine W. Eckstein has been named to the newly created position of corporate vice president of worldwide marketing for Ingram Micro Inc. in Santa Ana, and Randall T. Gifford was appointed senior vice president of product management in the U.S. region. Eckstein was most recently a visiting lecturer at UC Irvine and a marketing consultant. She was previously vice president of marketing at Kellogg Co., and spent 10 years at the Clorox Co., leaving as international marketing manager.

On the ground floor, tenants will be able to drop off dry cleaning, attend yoga classes or catch shut-eye in one of five sleep rooms. The coffee bar that serves up the day's first blast of caffeine will become a juice bar after noon and a pub after 5 p.m. The top three levels feature offices with movable, Lego-style walls designed to flex with tech companies' accordion-like expansions and contractions.

The much-ballyhooed but untested concept of building a national chain of business technology campuses--envisioned by Buy.com Inc. founder Scott A. Blum--will be backed by Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp. and $100 million. At a splashy New York news conference set to a Hollywood-style score, Blum and partner Jim Watson unveiled plans Tuesday for their Aliso Viejo-based venture, called Enfrastructure Inc.

The much-ballyhooed national chain of business campuses envisioned by Buy.com Inc. founder Scott A. Blum will be backed by a cadre of industry blue chips like Microsoft Corp. and International Business Machines Corp.--and $100 million. At a splashy New York press conference set to a Hollywood-style score, Blum and partner Jim Watson unveiled plans Tuesday for their Aliso Viejo-based venture, called Enfrastructure Inc.

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