Plans for First Phase of Much-Anticipated Hub Approved by New Brunswick Planning Board

[Tango Two]

Three floors of innovational spaces will be built on top of four floors dedicated to the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School which will be built on top of three floors dedicated to some 80 Rutgers translational researchers.

Plans for First Phase of Much-Anticipated Hub Approved by New Brunswick Planning Board

The New Brunswick Planning Board approved plans for Phase 1 of The Hub - a much-anticipated, 12-story science and technology ecosystem.

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[T2Kplus20]

Three floors of innovational spaces will be built on top of four floors dedicated to the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School which will be built on top of three floors dedicated to some 80 Rutgers translational researchers.

Plans for First Phase of Much-Anticipated Hub Approved by New Brunswick Planning Board

The New Brunswick Planning Board approved plans for Phase 1 of The Hub - a much-anticipated, 12-story science and technology ecosystem.

www.tapinto.net

Is this development for the Ferren deck crater? If yes, meh. They should make that land into a park and provide the community much needed green space.

 

[Sir ScarletKnight]

Is this development for the Ferren deck crater? If yes, meh. They should make that land into a park and provide the community much needed green space.

New Brunswick is getting a massive investment in the form of a new med school HQ + international research facility.

 

[T2Kplus20]

New Brunswick is getting a massive investment in the form of a new med school HQ + international research facility.

NB is in desperate need of open space and parkland. All people need this for improved QOL and personal health (mental and physical).

 

[srru86]

I love open space. But the idea of taking a large parcel immediately adjacent to a commuter station and teaching hospital and down the block from a pharma behemoth and major research university then converting it to some passive recreation is really missing the mark.

Every city that is on the upswing will be using mass transit and an alignment of Med, Eds & Innovation.

Even if the building were butt ugly any town that would pass on an opportunity like this is doomed to irrelevance.

In suburban Boston they are converting anchor stores in shopping malls to lab space because the demand is so high. NB (& RU) needs to draw those sorts of tenants.

 

[T2Kplus20]

I love open space. But the idea of taking a large parcel immediately adjacent to a commuter station and teaching hospital and down the block from a pharma behemoth and major research university then converting it to some passive recreation is really missing the mark.

Every city that is on the upswing will be using mass transit and an alignment of Med, Eds & Innovation.

Even if the building were butt ugly any town that would pass on an opportunity like this is doomed to irrelevance.

In suburban Boston they are converting anchor stores in shopping malls to lab space because the demand is so high. NB (& RU) needs to draw those sorts of tenants.

It would be an amazing addition to a city devoid our open space/parkland. I bet more residents would use it for that purpose than offices, classrooms, or lab space. Not even close. If done right, such a use would become the heart and soul of the community.

You need to think differently. It's not all about dollars, development, and the powerful.

 

[srru86]

If you really want to think differently NB should bulldoze some of the blighted and abandoned post-industrial parcels along Rt 27 and Jersey Avenue southwest of downtown and adjacent to the low income and public housing there. Those folks really need it.

Re-sod, plant some trees, make soccer fields etc. That is where they have put the most recent school development. Yes, there would be some environmental remediation costs.

The young professionals downtown can find their way to Buccleuch, Boyd and maybe even Deiner, parks.

 

[T2Kplus20]

If you really want to think differently NB should bulldoze some of the blighted and abandoned post-industrial parcels along Rt 27 and Jersey Avenue southwest of downtown and adjacent to the low income and public housing there. Those folks really need it.

Re-sod, plant some trees, make soccer fields etc. That is where they have put the most recent school development. Yes, there would be some environmental remediation costs.

The young professionals downtown can find their way to Buccleuch, Boyd and maybe even Deiner, parks.

Buccleuch is way, way too far. Look at Google Map/Earth, NB is a green space desert. Not good for physical or mental health. Yes, reclaiming some of that land along 27 would also help the community. They need something, anything.

 

[RUDiddy777]

NB is in desperate need of open space and parkland. All people need this for improved QOL and personal health (mental and physical).

You’ve got bucclech, Boyd and Johnson parks all a short distance away.

 

[T2Kplus20]

You’ve got bucclech, Boyd and Johnson parks all a short distance away.

Bucclech and Johnson are way too far from the center of the city. Boyd is garbage, on the other side and adjacent to a major highway. The only large amount of green space is St. Peter's Cemetery.....which as the title explains is a cemetery. NB planners need to do better.

 

[RC1966]

NB doesn't seem to have a dearth of parks for a city of its size. In addition, the city is embraced on two sides by the large and attractive grounds of the College Avenue and Douglass/Cook campuses. Few small cities can boast that scale or quality of urban open space.

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[T2Kplus20]

NB doesn't seem to have a dearth of parks for a city of its size. In addition, the city is embraced on two sides by the large and attractive grounds of the College Avenue and Douglass/Cook campuses. Few small cities can boast that scale or quality of urban open space.

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Welcome to City of New Brunswick, New Jersey

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Yeah, I'm sure local non-student residents get lots of access to Douglass/Cook (mostly in another town) and College Ave (which doesn't have much functioning open space). LOL. Look at the map. The center of NB has nothing. Not a good way to live.

 

[RUskoolie]

Terrible take. This guy wants a park in one of the most prime locations in the city when there is a huge park a mile down Easton?

 

[T2Kplus20]

Terrible take. This guy wants a park in one of the most prime locations in the city when there is a huge park a mile down Easton?

Yup, green space is a MUCH better use of that land. Think about it this way. How many NB residents would use such a park vs another building? The benefits would be immense to the community. And FYI, the park on the other side of RU isn't accessible to most NB residents without a car. Nice try.

 

[RUskoolie]

Yup, green space is a MUCH better use of that land. Think about it this way. How many NB residents would use such a park vs another building? The benefits would be immense to the community. And FYI, the park on the other side of RU isn't accessible to most NB residents without a car. Nice try.

New Brunswick came out with a study, the city is growing by nearly 500 people a year and they're not even counting illegal immigrants in town. Where are those people living when the city is already bursting at the seams and you have people sleeping in attics, basements, walk-in closets? They going to sleep under the shade of some trees?

 

[T2Kplus20]

New Brunswick came out with a study, the city is growing by nearly 500 people a year and they're not even counting illegal immigrants in town.

Wow, those folks are going to need even more open space and parkland! After creating this park, they will probably need another in the future.

 

[RUDiddy777]

Wow, those folks are going to need even more open space and parkland! After creating this park, they will probably need another in the future.

Idiotic. You have multiple parks within walking distance of downtown New Brunswick. The old ferren mall site is exactly where you’d want development and mixed use facilities.