{"id":273242,"date":"2026-08-27T13:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273242\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:38:12","slug":"lehigh-county-commissioners-monitoring-potential-data-center-near-coca-cola-park-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273242\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County commissioners monitoring potential data center near Coca-Cola Park | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2013 The Lehigh County Board of Commissioners received an update on a proposed data center Wednesday night at the government center.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Geoff Brace noted during a review that he had explored with the county&#8217;s law department the board\u2019s options to become an interested party to a data center proposed at 1024 N. Bradford St.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/lehigh-county\/allentown-area\/new-details-emerge-about-second-data-center-proposal-in-allentown\/article_dcaca0c9-9d56-4980-8de7-03efc0bf1a1b.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"New details emerge about second data center proposal in Allentown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"New details emerge about second data center proposal in Allentown\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/68b13dcba7a2e.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"tnt-summary\">Frank Kane, Allentown&#8217;s managing director, told 69 News the address for the latest proposal is 1024 N. Bradford Street, adjacent to Coca-Cola Park.<\/p>\n<p>Brace said data center approvals are the domain of municipal government and not county government. In this case, though, the proposed data center is in proximity to Coca-Cola Park, in which the county has a direct interest.<\/p>\n<p>Developer J.G. Petrucci applied to the City of Allentown to construct a 146,000-square-foot data center earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>911 Center<\/p>\n<p>The board approved amending the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lehighcounty.community.diligentoneplatform.com\/document\/429df290-6547-4cf7-bc0e-f8df07680cbe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2026-30 Lehigh County capital plan<\/a> to replace and purchase the 911 Center generator.<\/p>\n<p>The county&#8217;s department of general services wants to replace the center&#8217;s outdated generator systems with two natural gas-powered generators. The funds for the project will be appropriated from the 911 fund balance.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is worth nearly $1.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>Remembering Jim Martin<\/p>\n<p>Brace formally recognized the passing of former Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners Phil Armstrong, Antonia Pineda and Brace all made comments attesting to his accomplishments and importance to the district attorney&#8217;s office and Lehigh County.<\/p>\n<p>Martin was 81.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2013 The Lehigh County Board of Commissioners received an update on a proposed data center Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,23323,3069,112039,18238,433],"class_list":["post-273242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-coca-cola-park","tag-data-center","tag-j-g-petrucci","tag-jim-martin","tag-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}