Category Archives: Rahway

Plans for Irving Street parcel scrapped

A concept plan for a long-vacant downtown site where a jazz club had once been proposed has been withdrawn.
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Sewer, water fees set for Brownstones project

City Council approved a deferred payment schedule on water and sewer connection fees for the first phase of the Meridia Brownstones development.  Continue reading Sewer, water fees set for Brownstones project

Ribbon cutting set for artist housing

More than five years after the original concept of an affordable housing development geared toward artists was presented to the Redevelopment Agency, The Willows at Rahway, will host its grand opening with a ribbon cutting on May 1.

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Demolition under way at Center Circle site

Demolition of the athletic bubbles at the former Center Circle on Main Street is under way as part of site preparation for a 219-unit rental apartment development.

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Arts Guild finds new home in Burlington

Arts Guild New Jersey, which left a city-owned building in downtown Rahway at the end of August 2016, has apparently found a new home in Burlington Township.

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New Wawa taking shape on St. Georges Avenue

A new Wawa convenience store and gas station is beginning to take shape along St. Georges Avenue, on the site of a former fitness center.

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Council approves change to redevelopment plan

An ordinance that would prohibit certain retail and restaurant uses along Block 154 — located between Elm Avenue, and Campbell, Irving, and Broad streets — was approved by City Council on Monday night.

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