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New center planned for Rt. 1 Developer proposes 42,000-squarefoot project on northbound side of highway By siDDHARtH MuCHHAl A new commercial/retail center may be coming to Route 1 in West Windsor. On May 22, the West Windsor Planning Board heard a concept plan to rezone a parcel of land on U.S. Route 1 in order to develop new storefronts, including a restaurant, agricultural supply store and extended stay hotel. The 12.49-acre property is situated on Route 1 north between the Square of West Windsor shopping center (Lowe’s and
Trader Joes) and the Princeton Service Center office complex. The property is currently zoned as ROM-1 (Research, Office, and Limited Manufacturing), though the plot has been largely vacant since 2006. The applicant, HSC West Windsor LLC, is requesting that the property be rezoning to B-2, which allows commercial and neighborhood center business uses. The planned restaurant— potentially BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse—will be near the front of the property and closer to Route 1. The building is planned to be 9,585 square feet in size. Farther from the highway will be a Tractor Supply Company in a 19,097-square-foot building. The Tractor Supply Company has over 1,700 outlets
around the country, and supplies equipment such as tractor and trailer parts, fencing, and power tools. Planned for the rear of the lot is Woodsprings Suites— an extended stay hotel, which would have a 128 rooms in four stories in a 13,355-square-foot building. The concept plan was presented by Joshua Sewald, principal of Dynamic Engineering Consultants. Sewald emphasized that the concept plan fits in with West Windsor’s goals and needs. As detailed by the township’s 2018 Reexamination Report of the Master Plan, there are more than 2.1 million square feet of approved office space that has yet to be constructed, and more than a half million square feet See CENTER, Page 8
Asian market on the move Store to move across town to Plainsboro Plaza and double in size By Bill sAnseRVinO
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Meet the new store, same as the old store. Asian Food Markets, a longtime tenant in the Princeton Meadows Shopping Center on Plainsboro Road, will be moving to the spot most recently occupied by the failed SuperFresh store in Plainsboro Plaza on Schalks Crossing Road. Onyx Equities, the owner of Plainsboro Plaza, last month
announced a lease with Asian Food Markets to become the property’s anchor tenant by leasing the 43,152-square-foot space. Onyx said the store is expected to open in the next few months Mayor Peter Cantu said that the current plan is for the market to expand into twice the space as its current location and to conduct a total renovation of the store’s interior. “They’re ripping it down to the walls,” Cantu said, adding that he hopes that in addition to Asian goods the market also sells “some Western products.” “They are primarily an Asian market, but I hope they’ll try to provide a balance as far as the offerings are concerned.”
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Cantu added that the store is also planning to offer small prepared food stations within the store for people who want to stop and get something to eat. The mayor lauded the store and believes it will be successful in its new spot. “They run a good operation. I don’t shop there frequently, but my wife goes in there and she’s a pretty picky shopper. She says they have very nice produce, and it’s reasonably priced.” Town officials are hoping that the store fares better than the previous tenant, SuperFresh, which opened in March 2018 and was closed by October. The SuperFresh was long awaited—residents had been See MARKET, Page 7
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