ModCorr Leases 252,282 sqft from PNK at Allenwood, PA to Manufacture Modular Prison Cells — Same Campus Where PNK Later Proposes AI Data Center

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Actors:ModCorr LLC, PNK Group, PNK P2 LLC, Andrey Sharkov, Gregg Township, Union County Pennsylvania
2025-07-29 · 4 min read

On July 29, 2025, ModCorr LLC — a modular-prison-cell manufacturer founded in 2023 and headquartered in Galveston, Texas — announced a long-term lease from PNK P2 LLC for a 252,282-square-foot industrial facility at 89 Enterprise Blvd, Allenwood, Pennsylvania. The facility, inside PNK Park Allenwood at Great Stream Commons (a five-building, 1.7-million-square-foot PNK campus in Gregg Township, Union County), is a Keystone Opportunity Zone with state-level tax incentives through 2027. ModCorr will manufacture prefabricated modular prison cells and secure structures meeting American Correctional Association (ACA) and ADA standards for minimum-through-maximum-security facilities. Approximately 100 jobs are expected.

The transaction gains additional significance in April 2026, when PNK (via PNK P2 LLC) moved to propose an AI data center at 198 Enterprise Blvd — a different building within the same Great Stream Commons campus. PNK simultaneously hosts modular-prison-cell manufacturing at 89 Enterprise and proposes AI data-center development at 198 Enterprise, in the same Keystone Opportunity Zone, 37 acres apart.

Facility Specifications

  • Tenant: ModCorr LLC
  • Building: 252,282 sqft, 89 Enterprise Blvd, Allenwood, PA
  • Landlord: PNK P2 LLC (Andrey Sharkov / PNK Group)
  • Features: 40-foot clear ceiling, crane-installation-capable, 8-inch reinforced concrete slab, ESFR sprinkler system, LED lighting
  • Incentives: Keystone Opportunity Zone tax abatement through 2027
  • Adjacent: Within the PNK Park Allenwood campus; ~37 acres separate from the proposed 198 Enterprise data center site
  • About ModCorr

    ModCorr manufactures modular correctional infrastructure:

  • Prefabricated cells and secure structures
  • Meets ACA and ADA standards
  • Markets "rapid, efficient delivery and setup of minimum-to-maximum-security facilities"
  • Marketing language emphasizes "building the future of corrections"
  • Company founded 2023 — coinciding with the opening years of the Trump second-term detention buildout (WEXMAC-TITUS, Project Salt Box)
  • About PNK Group (Landlord)

    PNK Group is a full-cycle industrial real estate developer. Originally incorporated in Russia in 2004 by Andrey Sharkov, the U.S. operation is headquartered in New York. Sharkov, per sworn deposition on February 20, 2025:

  • Is no longer a Russian citizen
  • Lives primarily in New York City
  • Splits remainder between Monaco and Moscow
  • Separated the Russian PNK entity from the U.S. company in 2023
  • PNK operates a precast-concrete manufacturing plant at Bethel, PA that produces structural elements for both the company's detention-converted projects (Social Circle, GA — 2026-01-09--pnk-social-circle-dhs-detention-sale needs entry) and its AI-data-center proposals.

    See sharkov-andrey for full actor profile (needs entry).

    The Capture-Cascade Geography of Great Stream Commons

    Gregg Township sits adjacent to the Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex — one of the largest federal prison campuses in the Northeast, housing approximately 4,000 inmates across low, medium, and high security facilities. The township's political economy is already hooked on federal carceral revenue.

    This is what makes Great Stream Commons diagnostic of the capture-cascade geography thesis:

  • Federal Bureau of Prisons chose the area for the Allenwood FCC in the late 20th century for the same structural reasons PNK is now siting modular-prison manufacturing and proposing AI data centers there: rural zoning flexibility, cheap power, low-wage labor market already shaped by federal-facility employment, dependent political class, and KOZ tax incentives.
  • ModCorr's modular-prison factory at 89 Enterprise is the industrial-supply-chain counterpart to the existing FCC — producing the physical infrastructure that the detention-buildout requires at scale.
  • The proposed AI data center at 198 Enterprise is the speculative-growth leg targeting federal AI-compute workloads, subsidized by the same KOZ that attracted the detention-industrial tenant.
  • The filter that selects a jurisdiction for federal carceral revenue is the same filter that selects it for federal compute revenue. Both revenue streams terminate in the same rural county. Both feed the same local political economy. Both benefit from the same tax abatement. The township that accepts the prison complex for its jobs is the same township PNK is counting on to accept a data center for the same reason.

    Residents are organizing against the data center proposal. Union County commissioners have stated they have not met with PNK directly. News coverage of the data-center proposal has not previously connected it to the ModCorr lease executed eight months earlier on the same campus.

    Significance

    This finding is the physical-manufacturing node of the warehouse-fungibility-and-the-detention-hedge thesis documented in warehouse-fungibility-and-the-detention-hedge (needs entry). Great Stream Commons is the capture-cascade geography in a single zip code:

  • Manufacturing node (PNK Bethel, 48,000 sqft precast concrete) → produces structural elements
  • Component manufacturing node (ModCorr at PNK Allenwood 89 Enterprise, 252,282 sqft) → produces modular prison cells
  • Detention conversion node (PNK Social Circle → DHS, $128.5M) → consumes the components
  • AI data center node (proposed at PNK Allenwood 198 Enterprise, 478,388 sqft) → consumes the same fungible warehouse shell for an alternate end-use
  • One developer, one tax-abatement framework, one physical campus, two revenue streams.

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  • Sources

    1. ModCorr Secures New Facility for Major Manufacturing Expansion in PennsylvaniaLee & Associates Eastern Pennsylvania(2025-07-29)
    2. PNK Group Leases Industrial Building to ModCorr in Allenwood, PennsylvaniaYahoo Finance / PR Newswire(2025-07-29)
    3. PNK Group Lands Pennsylvania Industrial TenantCommercial Property Executive(2025-07-29)
    4. Corrections manufacturer to add up to 100 jobs in AllenwoodNews-Item(2025)
    5. Modular prison builder coming to Great Stream Commons in AllenwoodDaily Item(2025)
    6. ModCorr: Building the Future of Corrections—One Prefab Cell at a TimeModular Home Source Pro(2025)
    7. Modular Prison Cell Manufacturer Coming to Union CountyWKOK(2025)
    8. Residents learn more, push back on proposed data center in AllenwoodDaily Item(2026)
    9. Commissioner: Not willing to take a risk on data centers in Union CountyYahoo News / local(2026)