- Filed
- Hearing held
- Approved
- State permits pending
- Under construction
- Fully built
- Stage
- Hearing held, no final approval yet
- Town
- Monroe Township
- County
- Gloucester County
- Type
- Commercial
- Size
- 1,600,000 sq ft
- Latest step
- Aug 31, 2026
The project
A redevelopment area that named data centres as a permitted use in 2025, until the township adopted ordinances taking that use back out and barring data centres township wide.
Where it is
Steps so far
- Hearing held
Pinelands Commission minutes report the Monroe Planning Board granted preliminary site plan approval on January 8 for a 1.6-million-square-foot warehouse and distribution centre in the Hexa Builders Redevelopment Area.
Source: New Jersey Pinelands Commission · Read the document - Filed
Pinelands Commission minutes report a proposed ordinance on data centre standards for the Hexa Builders plan was on the township council agenda but not introduced, and no data centre application is before the Commission.
Source: New Jersey Pinelands Commission · Read the document - Hearing held
Monroe Township's planner told the commission's policy and implementation committee that the township had adopted two ordinances banning data centres in the township and removing data centres as a permitted use on the Hexa-Builders site. He said the site is not near the Hightop Redevelopment Area, answering a commissioner's question about the two competing for water.
Source: New Jersey Pinelands Commission · Read the document - Hearing held
Pinelands Commission minutes report staff found ordinances from Monroe, Pemberton and Waterford prohibiting data centres raise no substantial issue.
Source: New Jersey Pinelands Commission · Read the document - Filed
A Hexa Builders, LLC site plan, file MO-0511Sp, went to the county review committee listed as '1,500,000 Commercial', with no unit printed, and county review was waived.
Source: Gloucester County Land Development Review Committee · Read the document - Filed
Pinelands Commission minutes report the applicant asked to build a data centre and a warehouse instead of two warehouses; staff required an amended Certificate of Filing, now under review, and said there is no right of appeal from that decision.
Source: New Jersey Pinelands Commission · Read the document - Filed
Pinelands Commission minutes report the amended warehouse and data centre application is under review, that the current redevelopment plan prohibits data centres, and that Hexa Builders filed a notice of appeal with the Appellate Division.
Source: New Jersey Pinelands Commission · Read the document - Hearing held
The Land Use Programs Office reported that two further Monroe Township ordinances were reviewed and found to raise no substantial issue with the Comprehensive Management Plan: O:31-2026, which bars on-site generators as a primary power source when fuelled by fossil fuels, nuclear materials, petroleum-based products or other combustible materials except in limited circumstances and requires power to come from the regional grid, zero-emission sources or clean generators, with enforcement provisions and penalties; and O:30-2026, which defines and expressly prohibits detention, correctional and carceral facilities throughout the township.
Source: New Jersey Pinelands Commission · Read the document
Each step is our own summary of a public board or agency document, linked where the document is online. A project's status can change at the next meeting. General information, not legal advice. Justin Kelly, NJ Real Estate Broker-Salesperson, License #1540232. Brokered with OMNI Real Estate Professionals. Equal Housing Opportunity.