TierPoint acquired a building in downtown St. Louis that it plans to retrofit into an enterprise-grade data center. The acquired building, located at 2300 Locust Street, totals 135,800 square feet. Over the next year, the first phase of investment will build out 22,600 square feet of data center production space. The company will be investing up to $150 million in the project. Subsequent phases of the investment plan will build out additional space in the building.
2300 Locust Street, also known as the NSI Building and previously the Willys Overland Building was constructed in 1917. The six-story building was originally the home of automaker Willys’ (later known as Kaiser Jeep) main dealership in the city. The site was sold to the American Fixture and Manufacturing Company in the 1930s, and sold again in the 1960s, after which it was leased to multiple companies.