EASTON, Pa. – Easton City Council approved a resolution Wednesday night authorizing a lease agreement for space in the Fourth Street Garage to support the expansion and delivery of high-speed fiber internet service to businesses and residents.
Greenlight Networks, an internet service provider, will lease space within the city-owned garage at 39 N. Fourth St.
The five-year lease pact calls for the Rochester, New York-based company to pay the city $1,500 per month, or $18,000 annually.
Meeting documents show that Greenlight will use space primarily on the ground floor of the garage to install fiber and electric conduit, as well as a generator.
In addition to its monthly lease payment, Greenlight will provide complimentary fiber internet service for the Fourth Street Garage, and Easton will discontinue its existing PenTeleData internet service agreement. The discontinuation will save the city about $6,600 annually, documents state.
According to its website, Greenlight was founded in 2011 and offers its high-speed fiber internet network to more than 225,000 homes and nearly 10,000 small businesses in 35 municipalities in the Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Rochester, and Hudson Valley regions of New York, with construction underway in northeast and south-central Pennsylvania and across the city of Baltimore.