The ON3 redevelopment site in Nutley and Clifton, New Jersey, is approaching what Patch describes as a pivotal decision point, with a data center among the uses now under consideration alongside a hotel and restaurant space, according to an October 12 Patch report.
ON3 sits on the former Hoffmann-La Roche pharmaceutical campus, a site that's spent years being repositioned for lab, office and mixed-use tenants. Patch's report does not name the developer behind the current data-center consideration, does not give a megawatt figure or square footage, and does not say whether any application has been filed with Nutley or Clifton's planning boards. The piece frames the data-center option as one path among several still being weighed, not a filed plan.
That matters under New York's rules even though the site sits in New Jersey: Executive Order 62, which pauses new 50-megawatt-plus data centers in New York state, doesn't reach New Jersey at all. A data center at ON3 would be judged purely on Nutley and Clifton's own zoning and planning-board process, which is exactly where projects like this live or die in the Garden State right now — see the string of planning-board approvals and denials already moving across New Jersey this fall.
No operator, no size, no stage beyond "under consideration" — this is a site with options, not a project with a shovel date.
## What to do next There's nothing to bid here yet. If ON3's owners move toward a formal data-center application, the next document to watch is a site plan filing with Nutley or Clifton's planning board — that filing is where power arrangement, square footage and megawattage will first become public record, and it's the trigger point for site work, electrical and mechanical scopes to start getting priced. Until then, treat this as a site to watch, not a lead to chase.