Lerner Enterprises has won a key initial approval for a planned data center campus on its former Landover Mall site.
With the possibility of landing the FBI’s new headquarters no longer in the cards, Lerner filed an early-stage application in January for what’s called a preliminary plan of subdivision with Prince George’s County’s land use regulatory agency. The plan calls for five new data centers comprising more than 4.1 million square feet, dubbed the Brightseat Tech Park, on the 87-acre site.
The Planning Board, which oversees that regulatory agency, at its March 14 meeting unanimously approved Lerner’s application.
That doesn’t guarantee data centers — what one application documents called “a secure, mission-critical technology park” — will ultimately get the green light there, but it’s an important step in the entitlement process.
The Landover site has remained vacant since its previous structures were razed in 2006 and 2014.
