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Atlantic Realty buys controversial tract for $40 million By Bill sanseRVino
By BaRt JaCKson “Nancy! Nancy! Nancy!” wails the high-pitched plea from a far corner of the Rush Holt Environmental Education Center in the Plainsboro Preserve. A visitor, distressed by the cries, pulls her attention away from the scores of birds bustling around the tiers of feeder stations outside and looks around the center’s large expanse. Peering past the nature library shelves, the spotting scopes focused on McCormack Lake outside the building, and the snake terrariums, her eyes vainly search the indoor tree house. “Isn’t someone going to help that poor child?” the woman asks Lorraine Jackson, the volunteer behind the reception desk? “Oh, no,” says Jackson. “That’s only Ringo. He’s an injured starling whom we found and adopted over a decade ago. He picked up our language deceptively well, don’t you think?” A few moments later, Nancy Fiske, director of the Plainsboro Preserve, appears, sporting a smug-looking Ringo on her forearm. (Prior to Fiske taking the director’s post in 2013, See PRESERVE, Page 12
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West Windsor Gives Back held its West Windsor Mayor’s Ball Nov. 2 at the Boathouse at Mercer Lake to benefit the Princeton Junction Volunteer Fire Company. Pictured are PJVFC members Anthony Mangone, Brian Doel, Rick Finn, Dennis Huber, Michael Hornsby, Greg Griffis, Edwin Arevalo, president Michael Yeh, Tony DeCarlo and chief David Terzian. For more photos, turn to Page 18.
‘Alien invaders’ on the loose Lanternflies endanger Christmas trees, other plant life By Julia maRnin Beware of alien invaders this Christmas, and be prepared to kill them on sight. That’s the warning the state Department of Agriculture has issued regarding the latest nonnative insect to come to our region. If part of your holiday tradition involves venturing to
a local farm and picking the perfect-sized tree on which to display your ornaments, watch out for unusual gray blobs on the bark of your ideal pine or fir. These gray clusters could contain around 30-50 eggs of an invasive species known as the spotted lanternfly, a winged insect native to China, that the state of New Jersey is encouraging residents to destroy immediately if discovered. Mercer County is currently under quarantine along with seven other New Jersey counties because of this colorful
planthopper pest that has infiltrated the state. The spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula, has spread throughout Southeast Asia and Korea and more recently the east coast of the United States—mainly Pennsylvania and New Jersey. “While it is not harmful to humans or pets, (the lanternfly) does feed on 70 different types of vegetation and prefers the Tree of Heaven, which is an invasive plant that is present in much of New Jersey,” said Jeff See LANTERNFLIES, Page 14
The 558-acre former American Cyanamid tract has a new owner. What that means for the future of the property is anyone’s guess. The property was sold on Oct. 29 by Howard Hughes Corporation to Atlantic Realty for $40 million. The property, which is located at the corner of Route 1 and Quakerbridge Road, is one of the largest contiguous undeveloped properties on the East Coast. It has been vacant since 2004. The sale is the result of a management reshuffle at Howard Hughes and a decision to sell about $2 billion of non-core assets, including the West Windsor property. The company announced the sale of the tract in an earnings call on Nov. 5. West Windsor Mayor Hemant Marathe confirmed to The News that the property had been sold to the Woodbridge-based Atlantic Realty. He said that he had been “playing phone tag” with officials from the company and was unaware what their plans are for the tract. Calls by The News to Atlantic Realty for comment on the purchase went unreturned. Before its sale, the site was See ATLANTIC, Page 10
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