Dot-Com Opens Giggo Garage in 30,000 SF at Alliance

You won’t find a mechanic at the “giggo garage,” but you will find giggo.com’s 80-member high-tech staff enjoying new surroundings – a 30,000-sf national operations site in the recently completed 48,000-sf Alliance Gateway 20 building in Ft. Worth.The two-year-old giggo.com is a fully dedicated e-business division of DaimlerChrysler Services AG, serving as a premier on-line automotive financing and shopping resource.”This space not only supports our high-tech needs, but also is the perfect complement to our informal ‘Silicon Valley’ -style culture,” says Brian Reed, giggo.com CEO. The structure is finished with a fiber-optic infrastructure to meet 24/7 demands, exposed concrete walls, open ceilings with exposed wires and ducts, garage-style doors – and an indoor basketball court and Foosball table.giggo.com joins a growing roster of e-commerce businesses signing up for space in Hillwood’s Alliance, including Ryder Integrated Logistics North American Transportation Management Center, UPS Logistics distribution and technology campus and Ameritrade’s customer support center. In the past year, Hillwood has developed approximately 1.1 million sf at Alliance for companies whose business is primarily related to the Internet and e-commerce.