A Digital Realty data center outside New Haven, Connecticut, is up for sale.
Newmark is offering 80 Merritt Boulevard in Trumbull, Fairfield County, as up for sale. A listing price wasn’t included.
Sat on 8.4 acres, the facility is listed as a 227,550 sq ft (21,140 sqm) purpose-built data center and disaster recovery facility. The site offers 15MW.
Originally constructed for use by Nasdaq, 80 Merritt is currently operated as a multi-tenant facility configured in three pods: two data center pods and one disaster recovery pod. Crown Castle, Lightpath, Nutmeg Network, and Zayo are listed as carriers into the building.
The facility is owned and operated by Digital Realty as its HVN10 data center. According to the sales brochure, tenants presently occupy 35 percent of the facility’s square footage and utilize 36 percent of its leasable power.
Update: DCD understands Digital does not intend to remain as the site's tenant post-sale*.
80 Merritt was originally sold for $30 million in 2006, according to filings on the Nasdaq site. Digital Realty acquired it in 2009, as one of three facilities acquired from Sentinel Data Centers.
Nasdaq started life in Trumbull as the first electronic stock market. In 1971, it opened its first data center in the city. By 2005, it had moved its data centers out of the Merritt building and used the site for office staff. Sentinel then converted the site to a multi-tenant data center before selling it to Digital.
*An earlier version of this story incorrectly said Digital Realty intended to remain in the facility. DCD apologizes for this error.
