Editing Lucent Technologies (section)

=== Notable buildings ===
During its expansion in the late 1990s, Lucent commissioned several large office buildings.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bigness |first1=Jon |title=Lucent Expansion Plans Bright |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-10-14-9710140099-story.html |access-date=21 October 2023 |work=Chicago Tribune |agency=Tribune Staff Writer |date=14 October 1997 |language=En}}</ref> The architectural firm, Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo, and Associates (KRJDA) designed five structures clad in energy-efficient, tinted, low-E glass. 
* '''Westminster''' – built between 1997 and 2001, the [[Westminster, Colorado]] building was a 480,000&nbsp;ft² research and development facility for 1,350 employees. Its design is similar to the Lisle, Illinois building, with two four-story wings arranged with an entrance resembling a glass satellite dish. The building was an expansion to the existing Westminster building via pedestrian bridge.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lucent Technologies Westminster |url=https://www.krjda.com/projects/lucent-westminster |website=www.krjda.com/ |access-date=20 October 2023}}</ref> 
* '''Naperville''' – in 2000, the 600,000&nbsp;ft² [[Naperville, Illinois]] five-story structure was completed for 2000 employees. It had a pedestrian bridge to the existing Indian Hill research and development building.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lucent Naperville |url=https://www.krjda.com/projects/lucent-naperville |website=www.krjda.com/projects |access-date=20 October 2023}}</ref> In April 2023, the building was sold for $4.8 million by Nokia to a developer and the new ownership began demolition in August 2023 of those structures formerly called 'Indian Hill New' by Lucent and Alcatel-Lucent.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ecker |first1=Danny |title=Could these massive Naperville office campuses be turned into warehouses? |url=https://www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/developers-mull-warehouses-naperville-office-campuses |access-date=20 October 2023 |work=Crains Chicago Business |date=3 May 2023}}</ref>
* '''Lisle''' – in 2001, the Network Software Center in [[Lisle, Illinois]] was also completed in a similar design of a five-story three building with wings and two parking garages. This research and development building was a 600,000&nbsp;ft² glass building for 2,000 employees. A pedestrian bridge over an existing lake linked it to the Network Software Center, built in the 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lucent Lisle |url=https://www.krjda.com/projects/lucent-lisle |access-date=21 October 2023 |website=Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates}}</ref>
[[File:Nürnberg Nordostpark Alcatel-Lucent.jpg|thumb|right|Lucent Technologies Nuremberg building was an expansion to two existing buildings in Germany previously owned by Philips Kommunikations Industrie and acquired by AT&T Network Systems.]]
* '''Nuremberg''' – completed in 2002, the [[Nuremberg]], Germany "serpentine" five-story building was a 215,000&nbsp;ft² expansion for two existing buildings, with the same aesthetic design as the United States projects. It included a customer center and training area.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lucent Nuremberg |url=https://www.krjda.com/projects/lucent-nuremberg |access-date=21 October 2023 |website=Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates}}</ref>
* '''Agere Hanover''' – the last project was completed in 2002 in [[Hanover Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania|Hanover Township, Allentown, Pennsylvania]]. The project was called the Agere Systems Expansion, which was a three-story administration, research and development building for 2,000 employees with 560,000&nbsp;ft² of space. These buildings also included parking garages with about 2,000 parking spaces.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Agere Systems Expansion |url=https://www.krjda.com/projects/agere-systems-expansion |access-date=21 October 2023 |website=Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates}}</ref> The new structures were planned in 1998 by Lucent Technologies, before [[Agere Systems|Agere]] was incorporated on August 1, 2000, and Agere was spun off by Lucent Technologies on June 1, 2002.<ref>{{cite web |date=October 10, 1998 |title=Lucent Announces Plans For $165 Million Complex |url=https://www.mcall.com/1998/10/10/lucent-announces-plans-for-165-million-complex-campus-in-hanover-twp-lehigh-county-to-attract-1625-jobs-the-most-in-recent-memory/ |access-date=21 October 2023 |website=mcall.com |publisher=The Morning Call}}</ref> Built at a cost of $165 million, it became the Agere world headquarters in 2003 with consolidation of offices, research and development operations from former AT&T/Lucent Technologies locations at Allentown, Breinigsville, and Muhlenberg.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hsu |first1=Jin-Hsiao |title=The Highest and Best Use Assessment of an Adaptive Reuse Development A Former Agere Systems Campus Redevelopment Plan |url=https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/42039/228657371-MIT.pdf;sequence=2 |website=DSpace@MIT |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |access-date=20 October 2023 |page=13 |language=English}}</ref>