AT&T: 221 W Washington St, Appleton

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AT&T: 221 W Washington St, Appleton

Utility Provider: We Energies

Ownership: AT&T owned by reign capital; at&t leases the building back. the building.

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AT&T's main telephone exchange in downtown Appleton houses the switching equipment for the city's wireline network. AT&T sold the building to Reign Capital in January 2025 and leases it back.

Site History

January 2025: AT&T sells the building to Reign Capital in a sale-leaseback.

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Sites within 15 miles of AT&T: 221 W Washington St, Appleton

Distance	Site	About
3.27 miles	Verizon Wireless: Grand Chute	Verizon Wireless runs a mobile switching center on West College Avenue in Grand Chute, near Appleton, Wisconsin.
4.26 miles	T-Mobile: Fox Crossing	A former UScellular mobile switching center in Fox Crossing, near Neenah and Menasha, Wisconsin, now part of T-Mobile.
5.09 miles	Ark: Green Bay	Ark Data Centers (formerly Involta) is expanding its Fox Valley campus at the former Kimberly-Clark site toward up to 20 MW of colocation capacity.
6.12 miles	HBS: Little Chute	Heartland Business Systems runs a colocation data center at its headquarters in Little Chute, Wisconsin.
15.79 miles	Cloverleaf: Greenleaf AI DC	The plans for a massive 500-acre data center campus in Greenleaf, Wisconsin, have come to an abrupt halt after Cloverleaf Infrastructure officially withdrew its proposal.
18.06 miles	AT&T: 315 Algoma Blvd, Oshkosh	AT&T's main telephone exchange in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on Algoma Boulevard near downtown.

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