Convergence (New Jersey)

Coordinates: 40°48′54″N 74°26′23″W / 40.81500°N 74.43972°W / 40.81500; -74.43972

Convergence, located in Whippany, New Jersey, Morris County, is a multi-tenant technology and office campus. The campus sits on 67 acres and incorporates 668,588 square feet of commercial space spread out across five separate buildings. The complex claims to offer "flexible, efficient floor plates" and is suited to a variety of business and corporate uses.^[1]

Property history

In the 1950s, the 67-acre site's original owner International Telephone and Telegraph erected the property's first building to house the switching equipment for the famous “Red Phone”, the hotline that provided secure communication between the White House and the Kremlin during the Cold War.

Later, the site attracted Bear Stearns, one of Wall Street's trading houses. Purchasing the property in 1987, Bear Stearns expanded the original building and existing powerhouse, added three additional buildings, and upgraded the technology infrastructure to accommodate its executive staff as well as its disaster recovery, mission critical, data center, and trading operations.

Following the property's ownership transition to JP Morgan Chase, another major technology upgrade was completed in 2010. The $23 million in improvements included replacing and expanding switching gears and generators, expanding transmission capacity, and boosting power and redundancy capabilities making the campus usable for modern data center users, disaster recovery, mission critical operations, commercial office users and for high density office tenants.

Convergence is currently owned by Brookfield’s Real Estate Opportunity Group.

Property features include

• 37,500-square-foot floor plates within several 150,000 SF free standing buildings
• Existing tenants include JPMorgan Chase
• 14 MVA of existing capacity expandable to 23 MVA
• Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) units @2N
• Multiple turbine generators @15 MW
• Redundant fiber-optic connectivity @2N in addition to dark fiber directly to midtown Manhattan
• Existing data centers and networking infrastructure connected and available for immediate occupancy Synchronized data capability within 30 miles to NYC
• On-site facilities including cafeteria, cafes, and fitness room
• 24-hour access with site security
• Park-like campus
• Access by road, rail, and air
• Corporate neighbors include: Novartis, Honeywell, BASF, NY Life, Deutsche Bank, Realogy, Daiichi Sankyo, Intel, ADP, AIG, Avis Budget, MetLife, MFX Global, Kraft, AT&T, and Merrill Lynch, to name a few^[2]

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