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Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: Mullen ()
Date: January 17, 2011 04:31PM

Has anyone noticed the well-fenced and secure office building w/ data center near intersection of Loudoun County Parkway and Russell Branch Parkway in Ashburn? Lot's of expensive security fencing and camera monitoring with two guarded entries. What is this place?...

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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: Guest ()
Date: January 21, 2011 09:54PM

Visa USA Inc

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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: Bill Farrell ()
Date: April 18, 2011 07:34AM

It belongs to Green Earth. Its not a data center, but a large paper recycling processing and sorting area. Large companies pay them to pick up their large volumes of used paper for proper removal and recycling. Used paper is trucked in from all over Northern Virginia and then sorted into containers where it is transported to several of the recycling centers in VA. You can read more about the process at the links below...

Planet Green
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/

Paper & Other Recycling
http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/materials/paper/index.htm

Recycling Centers in VA
http://virginia.uscity.net/Recycling_Centers/

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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: Jill Gaffer ()
Date: April 18, 2011 07:38AM

I used to work there until March, and then had to move back Cali where my family is from. The fencing and cameras, were all there when the previous tenant that owned the property. Sadly Green Earth used to have a nice gift shop and did tours, but ever since the economic crunch, they've done away with all of it.

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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: I Spy ()
Date: April 19, 2011 09:02AM

Sure is a secure site for...uh...scrap paper handling...:


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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: I Spy ()
Date: April 19, 2011 09:21AM

As noted above by Guest, this is owned by Visa:

http://logis.loudoun.gov/weblogis/default.htm?app=webpdbs&pinmap=040464286

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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: Mullen ()
Date: April 19, 2011 06:49PM

It's a VISA regional data center as noted by Guest and re-affirmed by I SPY, above... Security employee at second/delivery entry gate confirmed last March.

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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: Great Falls Commuter ()
Date: September 06, 2011 07:14PM

Noticed this place on daily drive to work. Security seems extreme for
a private company (Visa?) Wonder if anyone has any update on this
property that appears to be Fed. Gov. related? It clearly houses a
data center with lot's of security and thinking there's more to the
story about the property.

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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: Swami Says ()
Date: September 07, 2011 01:44AM

Great Falls Commuter Wrote:
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> Noticed this place on daily drive to work.
> Security seems extreme for
> a private company (Visa?) Wonder if anyone has
> any update on this
> property that appears to be Fed. Gov. related? It
> clearly houses a
> data center with lot's of security and thinking
> there's more to the
> story about the property.


More to the story? What do you expect? This building handles a large majority of Visa's $4.4 trillion/year payment processing network. That's $4 million processed at this facility in the time it took you to read this. Maybe they should just leave the front door open with a big welcome sign?

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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: Another Commuter ()
Date: September 07, 2011 05:11PM

Thank you Swami. Do you like working there? Also, please forward hours of operation for their Gift Shop. Wishing to purchase elevated FICO scores as Xmas gifts for all of my friends and family in Sterling Park and Countryside.

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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: Another Commuter ()
Date: September 29, 2011 09:34AM

If it is a Visa payment processing center then what is the large warehouse/manufacturing space with loading docks for?

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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: Yet ANOTHERCommuter ()
Date: September 29, 2011 09:36AM

sorry - post above was not from "Another Commuter," but from me, "Yet ANOTHER Commuter"

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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: snowdenscold ()
Date: September 30, 2011 03:06PM

Another Commuter Wrote:
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> If it is a Visa payment processing center then
> what is the large warehouse/manufacturing space
> with loading docks for?


Why would a large data center not have loading docks? How do you think all that equipment got in there?

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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: Punkpostpoop ()
Date: September 30, 2011 05:16PM

snowdenscold Wrote:
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> Another Commuter Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > If it is a Visa payment processing center then
> > what is the large warehouse/manufacturing space
> > with loading docks for?
>
>
> Why would a large data center not have loading
> docks? How do you think all that equipment got in
> there?

Sounds like total crap to me. It must be for recycling trash or water treatment. I'm calling BS here!!!

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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: Ross ()
Date: April 02, 2013 12:10PM

It's an extraterrestrial research/monitoring site. At least that's what I was doing before Visa moved in. My division in the Bureau got cut and they moved us to Quantico.

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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: Sippi Sippi ()
Date: April 02, 2013 05:17PM

Ross Wrote:
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> It's an extraterrestrial research/monitoring site.
> At least that's what I was doing before Visa moved
> in. My division in the Bureau got cut and they
> moved us to Quantico.

Thanks Ross. Any info. for this place?-

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/36/792412.html

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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: get hers ()
Date: May 14, 2013 07:21AM

that very sophisticated facility which happens to be built on fault resistant land is the very place that monitors every visa credit card transaction on the east coast, if not more. the facility processes appx 3 trillion us dollars annually with the ability to process 40,000 transactions a second from its network operation center. its by no means 'classified' or 'top secret' despite visainc's desire to be. the facility can monitor access control at that location as well as other locations globally which visa has an operating administrative or data storing location. despite their lack of gsa status, make no mistake, their access controling abilities are top of the line. as much as i seem to be making a joke of the facility right now, i am entitled to due to prior employment there. and visainc by no means takes the protection of their business lightly.

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Re: Secure Facility at Loudoun Cnty. and Russell Branch Parkway's Intersection?
Posted by: Kardashian Prepaid MC ()
Date: May 14, 2013 05:11PM

get hers Wrote:
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> that very sophisticated facility which happens to
> be built on fault resistant land is the very place
> that monitors every visa credit card transaction
> on the east coast, if not more. the facility
> processes appx 3 trillion us dollars annually with
> the ability to process 40,000 transactions a
> second from its network operation center. its by
> no means 'classified' or 'top secret' despite
> visainc's desire to be. the facility can monitor
> access control at that location as well as other
> locations globally which visa has an operating
> administrative or data storing location. despite
> their lack of gsa status, make no mistake, their
> access controling abilities are top of the line.
> as much as i seem to be making a joke of the
> facility right now, i am entitled to due to prior
> employment there. and visainc by no means takes
> the protection of their business lightly.


You sold me on this. Applying for a genuine VISA credit card today.

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