Google on Thursday told residents in its first “fiberhood,” Hanover Heights in Kansas City, Kan., that it reopened Google Fiber registration for two weeks.
“Many properties didn’t realize the impact and value of Fiber before the initial registration period was closed,” Kansas City Startup Village leader Adam Arredondo (right) said Thursday in an email to Silicon Prairie News. “We’ll make sure that doesn’t happen the second go around.”
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Ben Barreth of Homes for Hackers—a program providing free rent to entrepreneurs who want to use Google’s gigabit connection—told the Kansas City Business Journal in February that many startups are interested in moving into the Startup Village, but have had trouble finding available properties that were connected to Google’s network.
“It’s a change that’s definitely for the better even if it’s not for that long,” Barreth told the Business Journal.
This opens up the opportunity for Brad Feld‘s KC FiberHouse to get connected, as well, the Business Journal reported in February. The Boulder, Co. venture capitalist and author last month bought a home in the Startup Village that he plans to let up to five entrepreneurs live rent free for one year. Applications to live in the FiberHouse are due March 25.
Credits: Screenshot from Google Fiber email. Adam Arrendondo photo courtesy of Arrendondo.
