18-Unit Apartment Building Planned For Hamilton Street
Autumn leaves will bring yet another applications for a Hamilton Street-based apartment building to the Planning Board. The Board on October 6 is scheduled to hear the application of Hamilton Street Management, which wants to build a three-story mixed-use building at 681-685 Hamilton Street. The 4,605-square-foot building is targeted for about a half-acre of property […]
Planning Board Tells Congregation To Slim Down Proposed Church Building
A Booker Street congregation that has been trying to get a new church approved for more than seven years will have to wait a little bit longer. The Planning Board on July 10 made it clear that it had issues with the application filed by the Macedonia Church of God in Christ International. The church […]
Consultant: Bad Traffic Intersections ‘Going To Get Worse’
Traffic conditions at eleven of 14 key intersections in the township’s Business and Industry Zone are bad and will get worse when all currently approved warehouse projects are operational, an engineering consultant told a group of residents on June 27. “We’re looking at a bad situation that’s going to get worse,” Dave Roberts, director of […]
Design Details Of Proposed Rutgers Plaza Apartment Building Heard By Zoning Board
The Rutgers Plaza retail center will get a complete facelift with the approval of a proposed 200-unit apartment building in the former K-Mart space, the Zoning Board of Adjustment was told during a contentious June 20 hearing. The current 13 retail spaces in the strip center will be increased to 17 spaces, mainly by cutting […]
Five-Story Mixed-Use Building Approved For Hamilton Street
A 120-unit apartment building and affordable day care center targeted for a tract in the Hamilton Street Business District was approved June 19 by the Township Planning Board. The Board vote was unanimous, although there was some reticence expressed by some Board members over access to the day car center on Hamilton Street, and the […]
Easton Avenue Issues Subject Of Community Forum
Some short-term “fixes” to Easton Avenue traffic issues my be put in place before major reconstruction work is set to begin later this decade. That was the upshot from a May 20 forum on safety issues with the township’s busiest road, hosted by Township Councilman James Vassanella (D-Ward 5). Vassanella was joined by members of […]
Zoning Board Holds First Hearing On Rutgers Plaza Apartment Building Proposal
Township residents packed the Council Chamber on April 4 for the first of what promises to be several Zoning Board of Adjustment hearings on a proposal to convert the former K-Mart building in Rutgers Plaza into a four-story apartment building. The proposal is being made by Levin Properties, the owner of Rutgers Plaza at John […]
Historic Preservation Advisory Commission Wants Design Changes To Proposed Rutgers Plaza Apartment Building
The developer of a proposed 4-story apartment building targeted for Rutgers Plaza was told by the township Historic Preservation Advisory Commission to “soften up” their building’s styling at the April 2 Commission meeting. Representatives from Levin Properties appeared before the Commission for a Certificate of Appropriateness for the project. The developer needs the Certificate because […]
Foundation’s Unauthorized Plan For Marconi Park Renovation Scuttled By Somerset County
Plans by a private organization to refurbish the Guglielmo Marconi Memorial Park at Easton Avenue and JFK Boulevard have been scuttled by Somerset County officials, about two months after the Township ordered that work on the park be stopped because proper permissions had not been acquired. The work, conducted under the auspices of the township-based […]
Jain Center Wins Planning Board Approval For Driveway Arch
It took about eight months, but the Jain Center on Cedar Grove Lane won approval for a proposed driveway arch at the February 7 Planning Board meeting. The biggest stumbling block of the application – whether the Center was obligated by prior Planning Board decisions to align the driveway with that of Cedar Grove Center […]
