Do new subdomains avoid the Sandbox.

Looking for alternatives to creating a new site.

[West of Willamette]

The company I work for wishes to roll out a new website that will focus on one of their core services. We all know that this isn't a good time to roll out new websites that will perform well in the SERPS right away. The company currently has a fairly successful, established website. I'm wondering if, instead of doing a new website, perhaps I should push for a subdomain on the old website for the new content. I'm curious if anyone has created subdomains recently with new content that have managed to avoid the Sandbox.

[DerekH]

All sorts of things avoid the sandbox - whatever that means.

Modest sites seem less affected by this embargo.
I launched a 7 page site last weekend and it was in the Google Index in 3 days. Sorted.

Instead of using a subdomain, I've also taken a site
www.made-up.com/webmasterworld
and done the opposite - added a folder
www.made-up.com/webmasterworld/added/
and that's been in the index in 3 days too.

I'm of the (totally unsubstantiated) opinion that "sandbox" is not an issue for modest changes.
DerekH