The Niagara Falls Redevelopment Authority has unveiled site plans for the first phase of its $1.5 billion data centre proposal. In a press release sent to the newspaper and other media sites on Wednesday, NFR spokesperson James Haggerty supplied copies of the company’s site plan for its Niagara Digital Campus project. The declaration came roughly an hour after Mayor Robert Restaino’s administration published comments and two videos criticising the corporation and its lengthy history of failing to rebuild land in the city.
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NFR and Urbacon indicated that they propose building the Niagara Digital Campus in two parts, a first and second phase, over the course of about 24 months from groundbreaking. Furthermore, phase I, which would be located on the 10-acre “Parcel 0” property, will house about 282,000 square feet of the 600,000 square-foot data center space envisioned for the entire project.
The site plan shows the first 50 MW of the proposed 135 MW project would fit on the parcel and the location of an electric substation that NFR and Urbacon say the would build at the site to provide power to the data center and, according to company officials, “materially improve the downtown Niagara Falls electric grid.”
Additionally, the site plan, prepared by Urbacon, NFR’s partner in the Niagara Digital Campus proposal, depicts what the companies say the first phase of the project could look like on what NFR calls “Parcel 0,” a 10-acre plot of land it owns off John B. Daly Boulevard near the intersection of 10th and Falls streets.
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“We are pleased to present this plan for the Niagara Digital Campus, which we believe will jumpstart a tech revolution in the City of Niagara Falls,” said Roger Trevino, president of the Niagara Falls Partnership. ” Furthermore, working with Urbacon, we have a rare opportunity to bring jobs and opportunity to the residents of Niagara Falls — the types of jobs that can change lives and foster high-technology infrastructure that will benefit the City of Niagara Falls for generations.”
