Business Technology Centers - South Carolina
Completed in 1985-1986
Scope
$32,000,000 in new construction
500,000sf of office space in South Carolina. The Business Technology Centers - four buildings in four South Carolina cities - were a joint venture between the principals of KPH and Control Data Corporation. Originally conceived to be high-tech business incubators, the BTCs were precursors to the technology boom of the late nineties.
Significance
The BTCs brought the KPH principals together with a prestigious Fortune 50 company, but the projects also involved state and local governments who saw the centers as catalysts for surrounding future development.