A Second Applicant Appears on the Project Tango Site — and Wants to Skip Your Hearing

June 6, 2026

For months, the Arden community has been preparing for one date: July 15, 2026, when the Palm Beach County Commission is scheduled to hold a public hearing on Project Tango. But while that fight has the community's attention, a second applicant has quietly stepped onto the same parcel — and it is pursuing a path that could let it build more than a million square feet of data center without a single minute of public comment.

A second applicant on the same land

Atlanta-based TPA Group, filing locally as WPB Logistics Owner LLC, owns 60 acres in the center of the roughly 202-acre Central Park Commerce Center site. It bought that land from PBA Holdings in 2023 for $36 million, and the original approval for those 60 acres called for warehouses.

On April 27, 2026, TPA filed its own site-plan proposal: convert roughly 1.2 million square feet of approved warehouse into about 1.157 million square feet of data center — four buildings of 289,250 square feet each. According to the public filing, TPA's plan includes outdoor generator yards, water chillers, and a water-treatment building. It does not commit to the enclosed sound-mitigation building or the closed-loop cooling system that PBA has publicly promised for its portion of the site.

The part that should concern every resident

PBA's original proposal goes before the seven county commissioners on July 15 in a public hearing. Residents can sign up, speak, and watch their commissioners vote on the record. That is exactly what happened in December 2025, when more than fifty Arden residents testified and the commission voted 7-0 to postpone.

TPA's separate application may not go that route at all. Because it is structured as a modification within an already-approved development, it could be processed through an administrative hearing — meaning no public comment, no commissioner vote, and approval decided by staff behind the scenes.

The county has left itself room here. A county spokeswoman said the request "would need to be reviewed by staff," and that "certain circumstances may require a site plan modification with an existing board approval to go through the public hearing process." In other words, whether the public gets a voice on these 60 acres is, right now, an open question — and the default path skips us.

Two applications, one site, more data center than promised

Taken together, the two proposals would put roughly 1.35 million square feet of data center on the site — about 350,000 square feet more than PBA's most recent public promise of around 1.03 million. Splitting the project across two applications means no single public hearing ever sees the full scope of what gets built.

A countywide precedent

Residents who have followed the project see a danger that reaches well past Arden. "The admin review is very, very concerning because the county commissioners won't be involved whatsoever," Arden resident Ben Brown told WPTV. "If that's allowed, that essentially sets the precedent that any warehouse in Palm Beach County will be available to be a data center."

For neighbors, the issue is simpler. "We don't get to fight it, we don't get to plead our case against it," resident Rachel Smith said, "which is just wrong."

These are residents' views, not the county's official position. But the structural point stands on its own: an administrative path quietly converts a public land-use decision into a private one.

What you can do

Demand a public hearing on the 60 acres. Contact your commissioner and ask that TPA's modification be routed through the public-hearing process, not approved administratively. The Resources page has pre-filled email links for all seven Palm Beach County commissioners.
Show up on July 15. The PBA hearing is still scheduled for July 15, 2026 at 9:30 AM. A strong turnout signals that this community is watching the entire site — both applications. See our Hearing Prep page.
Sign and share the petition. If you haven't signed, add your name. If you have, send the link to a neighbor.
Know the law. Florida's new data-center statute, SB 484, takes effect July 1 — and one of its provisions may require major modifications like this to be treated as new applications. Here's what the new law does.