The construction focus in Greater Philadelphia has shifted significantly, moving from an apartment boom to large data centers in suburban areas, writes Ryan Mulligan for the Philadelphia Business Journal.
One of the largest projects is the proposed 6 million-square-foot data center in Delaware, called Project Washington. Starwood Digital Ventures wants to construct 11 buildings on around 580 acres in New Castle.
In another major investment, artificial intelligence giant CoreWeave committed $6 billion to a data center project in Lancaster.
The wave was started by Amazon, which announced in June that it planned on constructing a center at the Keystone Trade Center in Bucks County, as part of a total $20 billion investment throughout Pennsylvania.
Apart from data centers, several other large industrial projects are being pitched in the region, including a Chester County farm being sold by potato chip maker Herr’s, a site off I-95 in Newark, Delaware, and a project in South Jersey in Carney’s Point.
Meanwhile, the few apartment buildings that are now being planned or are currently underway in the region are mostly small-scale or conversion projects.
Read more about the coming and proposed data centers in the region in the Philadelphia Business Journal.
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