The Future of Development: Multi-Tenant Ecosystems with Micro Data Centers

The Future of Development: Multi-Tenant Ecosystems with Micro Data Centers

Most people think of data centers as standalone mega-campuses…

But the real shift happening right now?

Mixed-use, multi-tenant ecosystems where industrial, medical, office, micro data centers, and residential all support each other — and strengthen the underwriting

In this episode, we sit down with Kamron Barr, MRED, LEED AP, the developer behind a new 150,000+ sq ft, six-building project in Clearfield, Utah that’s built on one core principle:

Instead of a single use driving the site, Kamron is layering multiple synergistic demand drivers into one vertically integrated development:

• 🛠️ Light industrial users (contractors, trades, service companies)
• 🩺 Medical office + health services
• 🏢 Professional office suites
• 🏬 Retail / consumer-facing components
• 🧠 Embedded Micro Data Centers powering AI, robotics, automation
• 🏘️ Future multifamily phase to support workforce and walkable density

Each use is intentionally placed. Each use stabilizes the others.
And together, they create a resilient, future-proof income stack that single-use developments simply can’t match.

How Kamron is structuring it:

• ⚡ On-site clean energy generation → Net Zero operations
• 💸 CPACE financing → reducing cost of capital and boosting project returns
• 🧩 59 diverse tenant spaces sized for flexibility and absorption
• 🖥️ Embedded Micro Data Centers → turning the property into digital infrastructure
• 🛠️ Full internal control of entitlement, construction, leasing, and operations
  → meaning no bottlenecks, no outsourcing drag, and no execution fog

Project Snapshot

• 8 Acres | 150,000 sq ft | 6 Buildings
• 59 Tenant Spaces Across Industrial, Medical, Office & Tech Infrastructure
• Off-market acquisition with financing secured
• $6.5M equity raise
• Located in an Opportunity Zone → ZERO capital gains after 10 years

This isn’t theory. This isn’t “someday.”
This is what diversified, tech-enabled industrial development looks like right now.

Kamron has overseen 100+ projects totaling $1,000,000,000+, spanning medical, industrial, multifamily, municipal, and manufacturing builds. He’s a LEED AP, a 40 Under Forty award recipient, and a developer with real dirt-under-the-fingernails experience.

He’s not following the trend —he’s shaping the next generation of mixed-use development.

Kamron can be reached at his website https://www.buildwithbarr.com.

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