Business

David Roth A Somerset-based CPA is among 40 accounting professionals throughout the state to be honored recently by the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants. David N. Roth, the Managing Member of CEO of RRBB Advisors on Davidson Avenue is one of 14 accounting professionals to be awarded a 2025 Ovation Award for Impact. Don’t Miss Out! No other …

PROHIBITED MURAL? – This mural on the side of the Green Knight Dispensary on Hamilton Street needs approval from both the state Cannabis Regulatory Commission and the Zoning Board of Adjustment. A mural on the side of a Hamilton Street cannabis dispensary is not the type of wall art the Hamilton Street Advisory Board wants to see. The issue was …

NEW CENTER OPENING – Somerset County Commissioners Director Shanel Robinson, CIC Director of Recovery Support Ken Musgrove, and Andi Williams, CIC Executive Director, left to right, speak with the FR&A’s PJ Parker at the center’s grand opening on September 18. People struggling with substance abuse who need help connecting with services, or who just need to talk, have a new …

INDOOR PLAYGROUND APPROVED – Hang Lin, foreground, owner of Bounce Air Adventure Park, tells the Zoning Board of his plans for the new location in Rutgers Plaza. An indoor children’s play park targeted for an empty space at Rutgers Plaza on Easton Avenue was approved September 18 by the Zoning Board of Adjustment. Called Bounce Air Adventure Park, the roughly …

Unity Bancorp, the parent company of Unity Bank, has been ranked 14th among the top 25 publicly traded banks in the United States, according to Bank Director’s 2025 RankingBanking report, sponsored by Crowe LLP. The annual study analyzed 300 of the largest publicly traded banks nationwide, placing Unity Bancorp among the industry’s highest performers, according to a press release about the ranking. …

MAKING HIS CASE – Gary Burnett describes the cannabis business he wanted to put in a building at DeMott Lane and Amwell Road at the August 7 Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting. An application to locate a cannabis dispensary in a residentially zoned building at DeMott Lane and Amwell Road was denied August 7 by the Zoning Board of Adjustment. …

PROPOSED FLOOR PLAN – An engineer’s rendering of the proposed floor plan for the Bounce Air Adventure Park planned for a space in Rutgers Plaza on Easton Avenue. Plans for an indoor children’s playground and restaurant targeted for Rutgers Plaza on Easton Avenue have been submitted to the Township Planning Department. The developer of the roughly 21,000-square-foot project is Bounce …

An application seeking permission to locate a cannabis dispensary in a residential zone is scheduled to be heard by the Zoning Board of Adjustment at its August 7 meeting. The applicant, Hound Town 543, wants to take part of the Bilco bicycle repair shop at the corner of Amwell Road and DeMott Lane and transform it into a dispensary. Don’t …

GRAND OPENING – Paradise Fusion offers a variety of cuisines at its Route 27 location. To the three partners behind the new Paradise Fusion restaurant, making connections is the key. Whether its through their menu filled with South Asian, Korean, Japanese, and Indo-Chinese selections, or through the planned bubble tea bar, the owners of the restaurant located at 3211 Route …

A GROWING SECTOR – Five of the township’s cannabis-related businesses recorded sales of at least $1 million in the first half of 2025. (File photo). Cannabis-related businesses in the township generated more than $278,000 in sales taxes in the first half of 2025. That translates to nearly $14 million in sales, and a Franklin cannabis industry on track to eclipse …