A data center company has purchased Tek Park, the 137-acre industrial park on the western edge of Upper Macungie Township that was once the world headquarters for AT&T Optoelectonics.
TierPoint completed the acquisition of the nine-building complex at 9999 Hamilton Blvd. in October. Lehigh County property records had the purchase price at $175 million.
St. Louis-based TierPoint was already leasing a building at Tek Park for a data center, which the company said is its largest.
“TierPoint continues to build on its exceptional growth trajectory, with strong demand for our digital infrastructure solutions, including market-leading enterprise, wholesale and high-density colocation services that support artificial intelligence and other compute-intensive workloads,” TierPoint Chair and CEO Jerry Kent said.
“This new financing increases our owned assets and positions us to continue responding to client demand through our planned expansion in Tek Park, with exceptional service, support, highly available and reliable operations.” Kent said.
TierPoint said it has started a 100-megawatt power expansion that it expects to complete in the second half of 2026. TierPoint clients at Tek Park include large technology service providers that are using advanced cooling solutions in support of artificial intelligence and other compute-intensive workloads.
TierPoint told the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corp. that it could add up to 100 jobs. The expansion project, including work on the utility substation, could support an estimated 350 or more construction and engineering jobs.
Tek Park was opened by AT&T in 1987 as a Bell Labs research center. Other current tenants include Aesculap Biologics and Aesculap Implant Systems, members of the B. Braun family of companies.
