AT&T: Dayton Main

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Dayton

Metro
Ohio

State
Midwest US

Region
United States

Country
North America

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Americas

Region

AT&T: Dayton Main

Year Built: 1930

Utility Provider: AES Ohio

Ownership: AT&T does not own the building.

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AT&T's main Dayton central office occupies the art deco Ohio Bell Telephone Building at Second and Wilkinson streets downtown. Schenck and Williams designed the building for Ohio Bell. AT&T sold it to Reign Capital's Reign Co2 Propco in March 2025 for about $14.9 million and leases it back as a central office.

Site History

March 2025: AT&T sells the building to Reign Capital and leases it back.
1930: The Ohio Bell Telephone Building opens.

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Sites within 15 miles of AT&T: Dayton Main

Distance	Site	About
0.07 miles	AT&T: Dayton 300 W 1st St	AT&T's four-story telephone equipment building on West First Street in downtown Dayton, Ohio, on the same block as its main exchange.
0.09 miles	DataYard: Dayton	DataYard's colocation data center in the 130 Building on West Second Street in downtown Dayton, Ohio, built in 2012.
0.24 miles	Lumen Dayton 3	Lumen runs a small colocation and network suite in the Fifth Third Center tower in downtown Dayton, Ohio, a site that began with tw telecom.
1.40 miles	Lumen Dayton	Lumen owns a small network and colocation building on South Broadway in Dayton, Ohio, built by Williams Communications.
5.08 miles	Landmark Dividend: Dayton, OH	Landmark Dividend's vacant single-story data center in north Dayton, Ohio, available for lease or sale since Radian moved out in 2025.
5.74 miles	Reynolds and Reynolds: Kettering	Reynolds and Reynolds runs a data center at its headquarters campus in Kettering, Ohio, where it hosts dealership data for its automotive software customers.
6.24 miles	U.S. Air Force: IT Complex (Bldg 802)	Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's Information Technology Complex near Dayton, Ohio, a 2012 building with a below-grade data center for Air Force research computing.
6.27 miles	U.S. Air Force: AFRL DSRC (Bldg 676)	The Air Force Research Laboratory's DoD Supercomputing Resource Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio.
10.11 miles	Encore Technologies MSB1	Encore Technologies' MSB1 data center on Springboro Pike in Miamisburg, Ohio, a former LexisNexis data center that Encore bought in 2022.
11.91 miles	LexisNexis Springboro	LexisNexis opened its Springboro data center in 2012 as the first tenant of IO's modular facility south of Dayton, Ohio, now Iron Mountain OHS-1.
11.91 miles	Iron Mountain: Miamisburg (OHS-1)	Iron Mountain's OHS-1 is a colocation data center south of Dayton, Ohio, converted from a retail building by IO in 2012 and acquired by Iron Mountain in 2018.
13.83 miles	Verizon: Waynesville, OH	Verizon's former MCI long-haul network and colocation node on Lytle-Ferry Road near Waynesville, Ohio.
15.67 miles	MVECA: Yellow Springs	MVECA's data center at its Yellow Springs, Ohio headquarters, which serves school districts and local governments across southwest Ohio.

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