WiredScore awards three Long Island properties with Wired Certification

Garden City, NY According to WiredScore, the pioneer behind the international standard for cutting-edge Internet connectivity in office buildings, three Long Island buildings have achieved Wired Certification, distinguishing them from their peers for offering best-in-class tech features. One and Two Jericho Plaza in Jericho earned Gold Wired Certification, while 900 Stewart Ave. in Garden City has achieved Silver Wired Certification. These properties, encompassing 855,000 s/f of class A office space, provide top-notch tech infrastructure to support Long Island’s growing tech community.

“The need for high-tech office space is not limited to just the core of major cities like New York,” said Arie Barendrecht, CEO and co-founder of WiredScore. “With booming demand from tenants for office space outside of crowded cities, suburban buildings must offer advanced tech infrastructure in order to provide the strong connectivity that businesses across sectors require. With more employees having the option of working remotely, high-quality Internet is one of the key features that attract employees to the office every day.”

One and Two Jericho Plaza are currently undergoing a capital improvement program to offer a more robust amenities package to both current and prospective tenants, including a state-of-the-art conference center, renovated food service facilities, improved exterior landscaping, and updates to the existing fitness center. 900 Stewart Avenue, a class A office property located in Garden City, offers a recently renovated and spectacular atrium, a full-service café and fitness center. All three properties are owned and managed by Onyx Equities.

“As a practice, we are invested in understanding the connectivity infrastructure of our assets,” said D.J. Venn, senior vice president of asset management at Onyx Equities. “This certification process allows us to meet and exceed tenants’ connectivity requirements. Wired Certification allows us to demonstrate our capability to provide best-in-class data access infrastructure for today’s business operations. We know as an office space provider, we become a partner in every tenant’s operational success.”

 “Any tenant in today’s marketplace must carefully consider its data/telecom requirements when leasing office space,” said Michael Ciotta, director at Oxford & Simpson Realty Services. “First, from a company-wide viewpoint, bandwidth demand is growing as space utilization trends continue in the direction of increased density, such as bench-style seating and hotel workstations for transients. Second, from an individual perspective, each employee is utilizing multiple devices, such as a desktop and/or laptop unit, and at least one mobile device. As these trends continue, service interruption to a building can have an increasingly adverse effect on both productivity and communication. This Wired Certification sets Jericho Plaza apart, and demonstrates ownership’s commitment to provide superior, uninterrupted data/telecom service for each tenant in the complex, both now and in the future.” 

In order to achieve Wired Certification, properties must meet a rigorous set of standards developed in conjunction with the top minds in the telecom and commercial real estate industries. These standards include the number and quality of internet service providers, the bandwidth capabilities, and the reliability of connections based on the building’s infrastructure. More than 650 buildings around the world have achieved Wired Certification.