NASK will occupy the second floor, leaving 22,000 square feet still available on the first floor for future tenants, Synergy said.
Beavercreek City Council approved the Kona site plan in December. The project is located on the southwest corner of Colonel Glenn and Eastside Drive.
“We are excited to help facilitate NASK’s relocation and expansion in the Wright Patterson Air Force Base market and welcome them as our first tenant in Project Kona,” said Synergy Vice President John Kopilchack.
“The Project Kona initiative offers NASK a strategic opportunity to grow its local workforce while providing easy access to the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), our key customers” at Wright-Patterson, said n-ask Chief Operating Officer Randal Barber.
NASK services the intelligence and defense communities, from Ohio and corporate offices in Virginia and Colorado.
Project Kona and its four-story counterpart, Project Rainier, sit on 20 acres acquired by Synergy in 2021, at the height of pandemic-induced work-from-home uncertainty.
Project Kona, which will be completed in the first quarter of 2026, represents the sixth building Synergy has built in past five years in support of the defense industry, totaling more than 350,000 square feet, said Kopilchack.
“With the 22,000 square feet of speculative space in Project Kona, with Project Rainier and now with the recently announced Convergence Research Center, Synergy remains willing and capable to stay one building ahead of the market demand for the defense industry supporting WPAFB," he said.
In an interview, Kopilchack said Synergy has seen continued demand over the past five to 10 years for office space around Wright-Patterson.
But he said it’s too soon to say whether President Trump’s return-to-office executive orders has had any impact on the demand for office space in the defense community.
The hope is that as Wright-Patterson gets bigger, the demand for space near the base will get stronger. The working population of the base has doubled since 2005, with about 38,000 military and civilian employees working there today.
“We’ve seen continued demand really over the past five to 10 years,” Kopilchack said. “Which is why we’ve tried to maintain an aggressive position in acquiring and controlling land. And hopefully that continues.”
“If there’s a ceiling (on the demand) or not, I don’t know,” he added.
With the Convergence project, which involves an “enhanced use lease” from the base, the next steps will be working through zoning requirements, needed utilities and site design. The vision for the $250 million project is for it to attract some 2,500 jobs off National Road and Col. Glenn Highway in Fairborn and Beavercreek.
“It’s like any other project,” he said. “We’re approaching this, even though it is federally owned property, like it would be a normal Synergy project as much as possible.”
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