Redevelopment map update

The beginning of a new year seems like an appropriate time as any to look back over the previous year and while we’re at it, update the redevelopment map on the site.

The Willows on Central Avenue was completed in the spring, roughly three years after being approved by the Planning Board. and some six years after the concept plan first was presented to the Redevelopment Agency. The 58-unit affordable housing complex was built with state tax credits and gives preference to people who work in the arts.

Gramercy.The.Dec2018.MonroeStreet.jpgThe next development likely to be completed will be The Gramercy on East Cherry Street, which originally gained approval of the Planning Board in late 2015.

The five-story, 42-unit rental complex includes 23 one-bedroom rental apartments and 19 two-bedroom units. There are 23 ground-floor parking spaces and another 34 spaces in the nearby Lewis Street parking deck dedicated to the building. The ground floor also includes about 1,200 square feet of ground-floor retail space.

The $13.5-million project is being developed by R2-N2 Urban Renewal Properties, a partnership between Warwick-based DMR Construction and Mountainside-based Netta Architects.

The building ultimately will be at the corner of East Cherry Street and Monroe Street — once that street is extended from Monroe Street. Initially, about 150 feet of the Monroe Street extension from East Cherry Street will be accessible for residents of the building to access the ground-floor parking.

Main and Monroe.viewfrom MonroeDec2018The Monroe Street extension has been coordinated between The Gramercy and the adjacent Main & Monroe development. The Main & Monroe project will feature two buildings, one on either side of the Monroe Street extension. After remediation work early in 2018, construction began on the first building of Main & Monroe, which will include 208 units in two buildings.

The first building, farther south along Main Street, will be constructed first, featuring 116 units. The second building, comprised of 92 units, will be located at the corner of Poplar and Main streets. Construction will begin after the south building is completed.

RevaRahway.Dec2018The Center Circle on Main Street was demolished in April and construction began by summer on the 219-unit Reva Rahway. The five-story project will include 112 one-bedroom units, 74 two-bedrooms, and 33 studio apartments. The ground floor will have 196 parking spaces, with another 78 surface parking spaces along an access drive.

Reva Rahway is being constructed by 1255 Main Street Urban Renewal, LLC, a partnership between Lavellette-based AST Development and Sterling/Rahway II, LLC, an entity created by Livingston-based Sterling Properties. The project was approved by the Planning Board two years ago after several different proposals of multiple building and as many as 250 units.

The Brownstones.GrandElizabethAve.Dec2018The Brownstones, at the site of the former Wheatena building at West Grand and Elizabeth avenues, began the first phase of its four-building, 487-complex. The first phase will include about 172 units by Linden-based Capodagli Property Company, which has built several projects in Rahway, most recently Meridia Lafayette Village on Main Street.

To recap, that’s 103 units completed (or almost completed) in 2018:

  • The Willows – 58 units (completed)
  • The Gramercy – 45 units (soon to be completed)

And 507 units began construction in 2018:

  • Main & Monroe – 208 units (116 under construction)
  • Reva Rahway – 219 units
  • The Brownstones – 487 units (172 under construction)
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3 thoughts on “Redevelopment map update”

  1. Thanks for the redevelopment update! A year from now it would be an interesting follow up to read about the occupancy rates for the new buildings.

  2. Thank you for this overview. I have two comments:
    1) The markers on the map for the Lewis Street and Essex Street developments need to be moved to the correct blocks.
    2) It is time for placing BIKE RACKS in town. I’ll use them.

    1. Thanks for catching that Susan, I moved those two markers.

      Bike racks — great idea!

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