UPPER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. – A massive data center complex being proposed for Air Products’ former headquarters in Upper Macungie Township will be under scrutiny later this month.<\/p>\n
The township’s Zoning Hearing Board has scheduled a public hearing on the plans for 7300 Cetronia Road for Tuesday, December 16, at the municipal building.<\/p>\n
The three-building, 2.6 million square foot campus is being proposed by Air Products for the place it called home for several decades. The industrial gas company relocated to a nearby, 53-acre campus at 1940 Air Products Boulevard in 2021.<\/p>\n
Air Products previously sought to build three warehouses on the site, but those plans never materialized.<\/p>\n
The new proposal is the first large-scale data center project to move to the forefront in the Lehigh Valley, but most likely not the last; the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission previously told 69 News it already has gotten wind of eight locations being eyed by developers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The property is located in the Light Industrial (LI) Park Zoning District. Air Products is seeking approval from the Zoning Hearing Board to have a data center be deemed a “similar use” to those permitted within the LI district.<\/p>\n
The public hearing on Dec. 16 will begin at 6:30 p.m. The Upper Macungie Township Municipal Building is located at 8330 Schantz Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. – A massive data center complex being proposed for Air Products’ former headquarters in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,157,2022,4129,29170],"class_list":{"0":"post-51234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-lehigh-valley","12":"tag-lehigh-valley-planning-commission","13":"tag-upper-macungie-township","14":"tag-upper-macungie-township-municipal-building"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51234","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=51234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}