Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield building data center in Conway
Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield announced Thursday it will locate a data center in Conway.
President and CEO Mark White, during Thursday’s Conway Chamber of Commerce CEO luncheon, announced the company will start construction on the data center in The Meadows Office and Technology Park in mid-2010. It is planned to be 18,000 square feet and to employ up to 20 people.
“This new data center will provide a new level of service dependability for the members, employer groups and physicians and hospitals working with Arkansas Blue Cross and our family of companies,” White said.
He added the company will open another data center between Conway and Little Rock, but the site has not been announced yet.
White said the company’s existing data center is about 35 years old and experiences power problems. He said the company wants to move the operations to a new area and is looking forward to the availability of the technology park. The company purchased enough land to expand in the future if needed, he noted.
Mayor Tab Townsell said, “Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield is a marquee name in Arkansas business. They have been a valued neighbor and corporate citizen for decades. It is an honor to have them make such an investment in our community. We welcome them to the roll of businesses that call Conway home.”
Conway Development Corporation Chair Bill Adkisson said, “We developed The Meadows to attract this very kind of project. These are next-generation jobs from an organization that has stood the test of time. Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield was a pleasure to work with. They share our visions of growth and high quality development.”
(Staff writer Rachel Parker Dickerson can be reached by e-mail at rachel.dickerson@thecabin.net or by phone at 505-1277. Send us your news at www.thecabin.net/submit)
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Twenty employees and eighteen thousand square feet! Wow! Does this mean the corporation (which was originally created as a non-profit) will have space to bury those who died because they could no longer afford their for profit coverage? Another between Little Rock and Conway? Maybe just a bigger one in Conway would be less costly and improve profits, unless its for redundancy. Oh, that's right. There is no redundancy in medical coverage.