TierPoint Allentown (TekPark)

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9999 Hamilton Blvd

Operational

Fully operational facility

TierPoint Allentown (TekPark)

Year Built: 2010

Ownership: TierPoint owns the building.

Lot Size: 137 acres

Sites on this Campus:

TierPoint: TekPark Expansion

Sites leasing space from TierPoint:

Colocation America - Philadelphia DC1

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Total Building Size

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Gross Colocation Size

The TierPoint Allentown facility, also known as TekPark, is a massive, purpose-built structure encompassing nine-building for data center infrastructure and disaster recovery/private suite space. The facility was designed for maximum stability, built directly into a bedrock foundation and fortified with concrete masonry and/or steel walls.

Site History:

TierPoint acquired the facility in 2014 through its acquisition of Xand, which had itself taken over the operations in 2011 after acquiring the initial developer, DBSi.

DBSi first announced plans for the data center development in 2008.

Before its life as a data center, the nine-building, 508,000 sq ft campus was acquired by Hamilton TEK Partners in 2005. This followed a complex series of corporate sales and spinoffs from 2003, when Agere Systems sold its optoelectronics division and the site to TriQuint Semiconductor. Agere Systems had inherited the site after it was spun off from Lucent Technologies, which itself was spun out of the original owner, AT&T, who built the site in 1987 as a Bell Laboratory site.

Quick Facts:

A $12 million expansion in November 2016 added additional 14,000 square feet
A former XAND data center before being acquired by TierPoint in 2014.
Located on TEK Park campus [r1]
Certifications: SSAE 16 SOC1 & SOC2, Type II
36" raised floors
Meeting & conference rooms
DR seats & private suites

References:

r1. TEK Park Link

Map and Nearby Locations:

9999 Hamilton Blvd

TierPoint Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of TierPoint Allentown (TekPark)

Distance	Site	About
0.00 miles	Colocation America - Philadelphia DC1
0.07 miles	TierPoint: TekPark Expansion	US data center operator TierPoint has secured $240 million in new asset-backed securities (ABS) funding and acquired its largest leased site in Pennsylvania, known as TekPark.
2.91 miles	Cetronia Road Data Center	Industrial gas and chemical company, Air Products, is moving to redevelop its former 194-acre headquarters in Lehigh County into a massive 2.6 million-square-foot data center campus.
3.13 miles	Cetronia 2	This facility is part of Cetronia Road Data Center Campus in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
3.32 miles	Cetronia 3	This facility is part of Cetronia Road Data Center Campus in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
12.17 miles	Flexential Allentown
12.27 miles	DataBridge: Allentown PA	AGILE Allentown has a double-ended 110kV substation on premises, fed by PPL. In twelve years of operation, this campus has never lost power. The 110kV substation feeds a double-ended 12.5kV switchgear which in turn feeds the 480V output substation for the data center.
17.10 miles	TierPoint Bethlehem	Previously was operated by Windstream until October 2015.
17.13 miles	TierPoint Lehigh Valley	TierPoint’s Lehigh Valley facility in Bethlehem, is located along the Lehigh Valley Thruway. In addition to the data center, the facility has office space and/or disaster recovery suites.
17.13 miles	Colocation America - Philadelphia DC3

TierPoint Allentown (TekPark) Data Center Photos (See all)

Front of Building

Source: Baxtel

9999 Hamilton Blvd

Source: Baxtel

TekPark Expansion Ceremony in September 2016

Source: TierPoint Twitter

Operating Company

TierPoint is a data center and managed services provider that focuses on secondary markets in the United States. Operating as a private-equity backed company, As detailed in the history section below, Tierpoint has actively acquired smaller providers and impressively rolled up a national platform in 20 markets.

Tierpoint Acquisitions and History

TierPoint was formed in 2010 as Cequel Data Centers LLC, however, the company's origins date back to 1995. Through a conglomeration of acquisitions, TierPoint built its data center portfolio. [r1]

2010:

Cequel acquired Colo4 (Based in Dallas and originally founded in 2000)

2011

Cequel acquired Perimeter Technology (Based in Oklahoma and founded in 2003)

2012

Cequel acquired TierPoint (Based in Spokane and founded in 2003). After the acquisition, Cequel was rebranded as Tierpoint
2012 Adhost acquired (Based in Seattle and founded in 1995)
2012 DBSi acquired [r2]

2013

Baltimore Technology Park acquired (Based in Baltimore and founded in 2005)

2014

TierPoint Management team recapitalized the company
Philadelphia Technology Park. Located in the Philadelphia Navy Yard the 25,700 sqft Philadelphia Technology Park first opened in 2010
Xand (founded in 1999)

2015

Acquired CxP Data Centers that added a 121,000sqft Jacksonville facility [r3]
TierPoint Acquires AlteredScale Data Center in Chicago
Acquired Windstream for $575 million. The transaction added 20 datacenters, mainly in the East, Midwest, and South, which fit nicely with TierPoint's western-leaning portfolio. Windstream was itself a data center roll-up of sorts. In 2010 Windstream acquired PAETEC and Hosted Solutions in 2010.

2016

Cosentury was acquired by Tierpoint in January 2016 for $575 million. Cosentury, was founded in 2001 and was headquartered in Omaha, NE. It provided Colocation, IaaS, and Compliance and Security services. Cosentury was a large company to swallow. It had nine data centers in the Midwest US and 220 emploiyees.

Tierpoint Services

Data center colocation is the prime product, but Tierpoint also offers Cloud, Managed Services, and DIA with DDoS protection.

TierPoint's customer portal allows for self-provisioning of resources (such as VMs and storage) and a dashboard that allows customers to remotely monitor workloads and applications across all locations. The company offers a comprehensive solution portfolio of private, multitenant, hyperscale, and hybrid cloud, plus colocation, disaster recovery, security and other managed IT services.