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Company asks for special use permit for proposed Brownsville data center
Summary by The McAllen Editorial Desk · Based on reporting by Montserrat Pagan , MyRGV.com (The Monitor) - All News
· July 21, 2026
· 2 min read
Southwest Key’s Casa Padre immigrant holding facility is pictured Monday, June 18, 2018, in Brownsville. An unidentified company wants to build a data center and cold storage facility at the now-defunct facility, which is an empty building now. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com) A n unide...
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Summary created by The McAllen Editorial Desk — automated, rule-governed Original reporting Montserrat Pagan, MyRGV.com (The Monitor) - All News Original story Read at the source Source published Jul 21, 2026 Indexed here Jul 21, 2026 AI assistance Automated summary drawn from the source’s own published text Prepublication human review No — editorial rules, flagged-item review, and published samples
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Key takeaway When asked whether he could share the name of the company seeking the permit, City Manager Alan Guard said: “I don’t know it.
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Category: business ·
Published: July 21, 2026 ·
Source: MyRGV.com (The Monitor) - All News ·
Reading time: 2 min
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What is this story about? Southwest Key’s Casa Padre immigrant holding facility is pictured Monday, June 18, 2018, in Brownsville. An unidentified company wants to build a data center and cold storage facility at the now-defunct facility, which is an empty building now. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com) A n unide...
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