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New Zoning Permits Data Centers at Convergence

WHIPPANY, NJ-Whippany’s law change will allow Brookfield to develop a 200,000-square-foot build-to-suit data center, as well as lease existing buildings at the complex.

By Debra Hazel | Updated on October 17, 2011

WHIPPANY, NJ-With a new township zoning law passed here, the 650,000-square-foot Convergence multi-tenant office and tech facility at 115 South Jefferson Road will now be allowed to house stand-alone data center facilities, says owner/developer Brookfield Asset Management.

Convergence has long housed critical data and telecommunication infrastructure. Developed by International Telephone and Telegraph in the 1950s, its first building housed the switching equipment for the “Red Phone,” the hotline that provided secure communication between the White House and the Kremlin during the Cold War. But the until the new zoning law was passed by Whippany in September, it could not house freestanding facilities, or dedicate an entire floor of an existing building to the use.

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