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 […]
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 […]
L’Oreal Wins Approval For Building Expansion
L’Oreal on Commerce Drive won Planning Board approval May 15 for a 158,000-square-foot addition to its building. The addition will be used as a new manufacturing facility, the Board was told. The building will include 10 truck bays, the Board was told.
Historic Commission Gets Sneak Peek At New Rutgers Prep Building
Representatives from Rutgers Preparatory School on Easton Avenue have begun seeking the round of necessary approvals for a proposed new multi-purpose building. Their first appearance was at the May 7 Historic Preservation Advisory Commission meeting, where they gave commissioners an advanced peek at the project. The project would need a Certificate of Appropriateness from the […]
Proposed Warehouse Hammered By Planning Board
The developer of a proposed warehouse on Old New Brunswick Road was told April 17, in so many words, to get its act together and return to the Planning Board with a more detailed application. Planning Board members heard about 90 minutes of testimony from two witnesses for the Onyx 789 project – the architect […]
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 […]
Jain Center Walks Away From Planning Board Empty Handed, Again
Representatives of a township temple were once again unsuccessful January 3 in getting Planning Board approvals for a decorative archway planned for the temple’s driveway on Cedar Grove Lane. The difficulty arose when some Planning Board members asserted that years’-old approvals for the Jain Center included a stipulation that they must align their driveway with […]
L’Oreal Plan For Building Expansion Sent Back To Drawing Board
Representatives of L’Oreal USA were sent back to their drafting table by the Planning Board December 6, whose members did not like the company’s plans for a more than 149,000-square-foot addition to their main building on Commerce Drive. The Board members’ main gripe was that the new addition would encroach on homes that abut the […]
