This is a data center lease to own arrangement on an operating edge facility in Knoxville, Tennessee. Buy it for cash, or take it as an owner financed data center: occupy the building, begin operating immediately, and apply a portion of each monthly payment toward ownership — without a commercial loan committee in the way.
If you have been searching for how to buy a data center with no bank loan, or for seller financed commercial property in Tennessee, this is that structure, on a real asset, available now.
Request Lease-to-Own TermsThis is the question every serious buyer asks first, and it deserves a direct answer rather than a sales pitch.
Commercial lenders underwrite against two things: comparable sales and standardized property classes. A 1,209 sq ft purpose-built edge data center offers neither. There are very few comparable transactions in this size range anywhere in the region, and no standard classification that tells an appraiser how to value 800 AMPs of dedicated service, an 80 KW UPS plant, clean-agent fire suppression and five in-building fiber carriers.
The predictable result is that well-capitalized, entirely creditworthy buyers spend three to six months in underwriting and are then declined — not because the buyer is weak, but because the asset does not fit the model the lender is required to use. This happens constantly in specialty commercial real estate, and it is the single most common reason transactions of this type never close.
Owner financing removes the lender from the equation entirely. The seller carries the note, the buyer takes occupancy and operates, and payments build equity directly. It is a well-established commercial real estate structure, not an unusual accommodation. It exists here because the asset class demands it, not because the property or the buyer requires special handling.
The mechanics are straightforward, and you do not have to inquire to see how the numbers move. The cost calculator has a down-payment slider: as it rises, the price comes down and the monthly comes down with it, and you can set your own cabinet count, power draw and bandwidth against it. Final rate and term are settled with the listing realtor; the shape of the deal is visible now.
You submit an inquiry describing your intended use and timeline. Our commercial realtor sends full specifications, building layouts, pricing and a proposed lease-to-own structure.
You walk the facility, inspect the infrastructure, verify the power and network build, and confirm the equipment condition for yourself. Nothing here requires you to take our word for it.
Terms are documented through the realtor and reviewed by your own counsel. On execution you take occupancy and can begin moving equipment in — no closing delay before you can operate.
A portion of each monthly payment applies toward the purchase price. Unlike colocation rent, the money is building your position rather than your provider's.
Owner financing is not a fallback for buyers who cannot qualify. In practice it tends to suit specific, capable operators whose circumstances simply do not map onto conventional lending criteria.
You run a managed services or IT business with strong recurring revenue and 6–15 cabinets rented from someone else. Your cash flow easily supports ownership, but your balance sheet is receivables and contracts rather than hard collateral — which is exactly what a lender wants to see. Owner financing evaluates you on your ability to perform rather than on the shape of your assets.
You have sat through an outage you could not fix because you did not control the environment, or absorbed a renewal increase you had no leverage to refuse. You are not buying square footage — you are buying the certainty that nobody else holds the keys to your uptime. Owner financing gets you there faster than waiting on a bank.
You could write the check, but your capital is doing productive work in equipment, inventory and payroll runway. Committing seven figures to a single asset would be strategically poor even though it is affordable. Lease-to-own lets you take the position without liquidating the rest of the business.
You have been looking for six months or more. Every listing gates the conversation behind proof of funds, every promising property stalls in financing, and you are starting to question the whole plan. This listing will talk to you first and work out structure second.
Every buyer considering a specialty asset with owner financing has the same private concerns. Here they are, answered plainly.
Because the buyer pool for a purpose-built data center is genuinely small, and most of the people in it hit the financing wall described above. This is a specialised asset in a secondary market — it was never going to sell in three weeks the way a retail strip center does. The narrow buyer pool is a function of the asset type, not a signal about the asset condition. The facility has been operating continuously since 2007 and you are welcome to inspect every system yourself.
Fair concern, and the reason the transaction runs through a licensed commercial realtor rather than directly between parties. Terms are documented, reviewed by your own counsel, and structured with a defined path to title. You should expect clear, plain-English terms — and if anything in a proposed structure is not clear, that is a reason to slow down, not to proceed.
The infrastructure is installed, commissioned and running — this is not a project requiring you to build or integrate anything. The more useful answer is that we have written down in full what operating a building this size actually demands, discipline by discipline, so you can measure it against your own team rather than take anyone's word for it. The people who have run this floor since 2007 remain available afterward on a separate consulting basis if a handover period is useful — priced independently, and never a condition of the sale.
Data center properties are less liquid than generic commercial space — that is honestly true and worth factoring in. What offsets it is that the underlying infrastructure has real replacement value: building equivalent power, cooling, suppression and network from scratch is estimated at $1.2M–$1.5M and 12–18 months. The asset is illiquid, but it is not thin.
No, and this matters legally. What is being sold is the commercial real estate and the installed infrastructure only. No client contracts, no revenue streams, no employees and no goodwill are included or implied. Any revenue you generate is a function of what you build, and nothing on this site should be read as a projection of income.
A brief summary of the asset behind the structure. Full technical detail is on the specifications page.
800 AMPs of dedicated utility service, 80 KW 208V primary PDU, APC Symmetra PX UPS in N+1 configuration, and a 400-gallon diesel generator with automatic transfer. No utility interconnection queue — the hardest thing to add to a building is already here.
Comcast/Xfinity, WOW, LCUB, Iris Networks and AT&T all have fiber at the building, with BGP-capable Cisco routing and switching included in the sale. IP address space is not included and is available separately. Genuine carrier diversity at this size is uncommon and gives you real negotiating leverage on bandwidth.
12 APC Netshelter SX 42U cabinets installed with capacity for 24, Mitsubishi N+1 cooling, Fike Ecaro-25 clean-agent suppression, Kantech three-layer access control, and two furnished offices with direct data floor access.
Tell us your intended use and timeline. Our commercial realtor will send full specifications, building layouts, pricing and a proposed structure. No proof of funds required to start a conversation.
Request Lease-to-Own Terms2575 Willow Point Way, Suite 103 · Hardin Valley, West Knoxville, TN 37931
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If you are reading this page rather than the specifications, the structure is the thing standing between you and a decision. Say what would have to be true on your end for it to work, and it will get a real answer rather than a brochure.
You do not have to be ready to buy anything to ask a question. Most people who end up acquiring a facility like this spend weeks working out whether the idea is sound before they speak to anyone, usually because there is nobody in their world who has done it and nobody they can ask without tipping their hand.
That is a normal place to be. Ask the question you would ask if there were no consequence to asking it. Nobody is going to demand proof of funds before answering, and a question is not a signal of intent.
This is a commercial real estate and infrastructure transaction. No client contracts, customer base, recurring revenue, employees or goodwill are included.
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