The first rental units of Park Square are expected to come on line by October. Once the exterior brickwork is finished on the four-story development, streetscape along Irving Street will begin, with a target of Sept. 1.
Certificates of occupancy will be done by floor — about 20 units at a time — said Eric Harvitt of Keasbey-based Landmark Companies during a tour of the project earlier this month.
The Main Street side of the project (right) is expected to be completed in about 18 months and should move quicker since there are no design decisions to make, as it’s very similar to the Irving Street structure.
Park Square will have 159 rental apartments: 63 units on Irving along with 7,000 square feet of retail space, and 96 units on Main Street, with a courtyard and driveway between the two buildings. Retail tenants also are expected to begin operation by the fall; they are in discussions with a coffee/teahouse and an optometrist.
The project broke ground more than a year ago and occupies a block of downtown that once housed, among other things, a bank, hardware store, boarding house, gas station and thrift shop.
This project received the Transit-Friendly Downtown Redevelopment award from New Jersey Future earlier this year.
But where are people going to park if they live there???
Re: ParkingI think that there will be some parking spots located under each building and probably a few surface spots in between the two buildings as well.
When this was first proposed I thought the developer said the name came to be since there would be a “park” between the buildings,It looks as if the “park” is a parking lot. At least it looks pretty good so far.
I’m hoping these developments will finally convince someone to open a full-fledged grocery store downtown.
You are so right, a grocery store would even help those of us who don’t live downtown. At least it would give us another option of where to shop. For those of us who have lived here for a number of years, you don’t know how hard it is not to have a supermarket in town. We used to have an Acme supermarket where CVS is. As small as it was, we miss it.
I don’t think a supermarket with a big, litter-strewn parking lot like ShopRite in Linden or Pathmark in Avenel is very appropriate for a downtown where you want to encourage pedestrian traffic. I hope that the city uses spaces downtown for a better purpose than another supermarket, although a “grocery store” could also mean something smaller and more apt for downtown than a supermarket.
Apologies for failing to mention it in the original post (especially after the recent discussions on parking!). Parking for residents will be located on the first floor, behind the commercial space, on Irving Street. On the Main Street side, parking will be on the first two levels of four-story structure.Don’t know if you can call it a “park” in between the buildings, but the sketch on their Web site gives a better look of how many trees will be on the site than my photos can at this point.
Two words: TRADER JOE’S!Useful enough to serve as your everyday grocery store for residents, unique/cool enough to bring in people from out of town.From my keyboard to God’s ears …
I see they have extraordinary kitchens…