Editor’s note: This summary highlights one of the most-read stories on BusinessJournalDaily.com in 2025.
A proposal to develop a $1 billion-plus data center campus on more than 300 acres of former industrial land in McDonald was among the most read stories published by The Business Journal in 2025.
In November, The Business Journal reported that the owners of the former McDonald Steel Corp. site were in the process of assembling additional contiguous parcels that would accommodate a large data center campus there. The site originally housed U.S. Steel Corp.’s McDonald Works until the complex closed in 1980.
Local investors resurrected a portion of the mill and launched McDonald Steel in 1981. That operation closed in 2024, and its buildings are now being demolished to make way for new development.
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