Blacks Building

Built-in Business Advantages

• Professional atmosphere with more than 40 companies including engineering firms, restaurant and retail outlets, law firms, insurance, dental offices, various state and federal agencies, media, service organizations and much more
• Professionally remodeled offices
• On-site maintenance and management personnel
• 24-hour facility
• Two freight elevators that open onto each floor with a
  loading dock at the rear entrance
• Three passenger elevators and two enclosed fire stairwells
  at both sides of the building serve the Black's Building
• Floor plates are 20,000 sq. ft. each in the main tower.
  Ceiling heights can be as high as 12 feet. The interior
  walls are non-load bearing and can be removed to more
  easily meet expansion needs
• Over 200,000 sq. ft. of space to more easily meet expansion needs
• Large windows and high ceilings give ample lighting
  and a feeling of spaciousness
• Mailbox network located on main floor with access
  mail slots on each floor
• Overnight delivery boxes on the second floor
  
  On-Site Fiber Optic Communications
  
• On-site MCI point of presence fiber optic phone switch offers optic communications with crystal clear connections providing substantial savings to long distance users
• Additionally, McLeod has installed fiber optics to its equipment in the Black's Building, as well.
• Offers extremely reduced T-1 and DS-1 access fees
• Multiple redundancy and UPS battery back-up
• On-site technician
  
  Safety and Security Features
  
• Building is fully sprinklered
• Stair towers exceed building code requirements -
  the sprinkler system and smoke detectors have direct call at the fire station via enunciator panel and phone line
• The Waterloo Police and Black Hawk County Sheriff
  departments are 2-3 blocks away
• The fire department is three blocks away
  
  Plenty of Parking
  
• Black's is attached to a well-lit 612-space parking ramp
  via a covered skywalk on the second level
• An additional well-lit 250-car ramp is one block away
• Parking and loading stalls in front and alongside the building
  
  Skywalks Connecting Downtown
  
• The skywalk system will connect businesses from the 5
  Sullivan Brothers Convention Center to the City Hall.
  The Black's Building is already set up for the skywalk on the second level.
  
  Convenient Central Location
  
• 9,000 people work in downtown Waterloo with a goal of 15,000
• City hall and courthouse three blocks away
• Regional U.S. Post Office one block away
• Abstract company within one block
• Numerous financial institutions are located downtown
• Various news media offices in the building and others
  located within two blocks
• 5 Sullivan Brothers Civic Center two blocks away
• Waterloo Public Library two blocks away
• Young Ice Arena four blocks away
• Health club two blocks away
• There is a restaurant within the building with numerous
  retail shops including beauty shops, barbershops, jewelry,
  clothing and antiques, along with other restaurants,
  located in the downtown area within a three-block radius
• Various city parks within a block with concerts scheduled
  bi-weekly during summer
• Apartments for rent and new condominiums going up in the
  downtown area make it convenient for your employees
  to walk to work
  
  Access to Transportation
  
• Black's Building has the best access in the county
  for all transportation needs:

1. Close proximity to all major roadways: Ave of the Saints-Iowa Highway 27; U.S. Highway 63; Interstate 380; Relocated U.S. Highway 218; U.S. Highway 20
2. 10 minutes from Waterloo Municipal Airport
3. Across the street from the Metropolitan Transit Authority's main transfer station

A Few Words About Waterloo

• University of Northern Iowa only 10 miles away with sports
  and events held in the UNI-dome with a campus located
  in downtown Waterloo, about 3 blocks from the Black's Building
• Upper Iowa University has a Waterloo campus
• Hawkeye Community College, Waterloo, offers many job-training programs in addition to college curriculum
• Wartburg College is approximately 13 miles away
• Excellent public and private school systems
• Two major regional hospitals and full range of medical professionals
• Waterloo Black Hawks minor league hockey team with a new
  Olympic-sized ice arena
• Chain of Lakes, parks and recreation areas
• Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra
• Waterloo Community Playhouse and Black Hawk Children's Theater
• Cedar Falls Oster Regent Theatre
• Two major shopping malls in the area with many strip
  malls through out Waterloo and Cedar Falls
• Many fine restaurants offering most ethnic cuisines
• Annual festivals and celebrations
• The American Discovery Trail bike path, which will run
  from the East to West coast, will be within 2 blocks of the building