The Altoona City Council is scheduled to hold a public hearing next week to rezone about 370 acres for a proposed data center development north of Interstate 80.
The city’s Planning and Zoning Commission recently voted to recommend approval of the rezoning request by Denver-based data center developer Tract. If approved, the site would be rezoned from agricultural to limited industrial.
Sam Bishop, director of entitlements for Tract, gave a presentation at the April 29 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, where he told commission members that Tract was under contract to purchase the site bordered by the Union Pacific railroad, Northeast 62nd Avenue and Northeast 70th Avenue…