Serramonte Center is Now a Wi-Fi Hotspot
State-Of-The-Art Mall is First in Bay Area to Provide Wireless High-Speed Internet Service
DALY CITY, CA, April 15, 2004
– Jones Lang LaSalle, the largest third-party manager of regional shopping centers in the nation, today announced that SBC Communications Inc. recently launched its SBC FreedomLinkSM wireless high-speed Internet service (Wi-Fi), at Serramonte Center in Daly City, California. As the first enclosed mall in the San Francisco Bay area to provide service throughout all of the mall’s public traffic areas and in the food court, Serramonte is on the cutting edge of this trend- setting wireless connectivity initiative.Through SBC Communication’s service and support, the Wi-Fi Internet connection at Serramonte will allow shoppers and patrons with Wi-Fi enabled laptops or portable devices to have high-speed Internet access to e-mail, the Web or their company’s private network without requiring a cabled Internet connection.
"The installation of wireless Internet access further enhances Serramonte’s reputation as a forward-thinking urban retail center and raises the bar for the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as California as a whole," said Dick Bartlett, General Manager at Serramonte Center.
Owned by Capital and Counties U.S.A., Inc., Serramonte is an 865,000-square-foot shopping center with more than 120 stores including Target, Macy’s, Mervyn’s, Victoria’s Secret Beauty, Forever 21, Hot Topic, The Children’s Place, Journeys, Kay Jewelers and, coming this summer, Hollister. The center serves a local population of 1.1 million as well as shoppers from San Francisco and the Northern Peninsula.
Serramonte Center is Now a Wi-Fi Hotspot
– Add OneAbout Capital & Counties U.S.A., Inc.
Capital & Counties U.S.A., Inc., through its namesake parent company, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty International PLC, one of the largest publicly traded property companies in the United Kingdom with assets in excess of $6 billion. Since its initial investment in 1968, Capital & Counties has acquired and developed a high quality portfolio of property that has varied in size over time in a range of 1.5 to 2.0 million square feet. Key acquisitions dating from the company’s inception remain in the portfolio which is focused in California and comprised of office and retail properties. Since 1990, Capital & Counties has developed over 300,000 square feet of retail property which has included an entertainment center, an upscale neighborhood center and a build-to-suit specialty market. In addition, it has substantially increased the value of its holdings through add-on development and proactive asset management.
About Jones Lang LaSalle
Jones Lang LaSalle is a globally integrated real estate services and money management firm with a portfolio of more than 725 million square feet of property under management worldwide, including more than 280 shopping centers on four continents. In the United States, Jones Lang LaSalle is the largest third-party regional shopping center manager with a 35-million-square-foot portfolio of 54 regional shopping centers and transportation terminals across 23 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. For additional information, visit the Jones Lang LaSalle website at
www.joneslanglasalle.com.