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Over 60 years ago, US Steel broke ground for its new plant right in Fairless Hills. The new plant, would become the second largest integrated plant on the East Coast, bringing workers from as far away as Indiana right to the Levittown area. The multitude of manufacturing jobs and the workers that needed them, created a unique housing shortage, and a perfect advantage for those who noticed it, specifically Levitt & Sons.
Today US Steel operates at a fraction of the size it once did. According to the company’s website, ‘old-rolled products are finished into galvanized sheet which serve customers in the appliance, automotive, metal building and home construction industries.’
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Most recently though, one local company is seeking to bring the motor room into the impending decades, breathing new light into what some may call ‘the need for Levittown’.
At the most recent Falls Township Board of Supervisors meeting, Keystone NAP, a local Fairless Hills company, which began in 2013, was approved to convert 9.42 acres of the US Steel Fairless Works site into a data storage facility.
Unlike earlier times when data storage facilities needed to be contained on the same properties as the computers within the network, this is no longer the case, allowing Keystone NAP to sell portions of its space to clients, protecting and serving their network needs in one central location.
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Some work will be needed to covert the property but renovation of at least the first floor is set to be finished by the end of 2014.
