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This article by Barbara Fox was prepared for the August 21, 2002 edition of U.S. 1 Newspaper. All rights reserved.
Brandywine Buys New Home for CUH2A
Brandywine Realty Trust has bought 1000 Lenox Drive, the building that currently houses Highlands Insurance Group, and will lease it to CUH2A. Brandywine is a full-service real estate investment trust that owns 270 properties with 21 million square feet. It paid $7,575,000 for the property, including the 52,000 square foot building plus developable acres. Highlands has ceased writing insurance policies and is in a reorganization period.
John R.A. Scott, president of CUH2A, says his firm will move to Lenox Drive in November, 2003. CUH2A currently occupies 60,000 square feet at 211 and 104 Carnegie Center. The move, he says, will help eliminate space redundancies, but the staff size (288 here, plus those at offices in Atlanta, Chicago, and London) will remain the same. CUH2A does architecture, planning, and engineering (www.cuh2a.com).
Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), 2000 Lenox Drive,Suite 102, Lawrenceville 08648. George D. Sowa, vice president.609-895-9595; fax, 609-895-9899. Home page:www.brandywinerealty.comTop Of PageExpansionsFor the DisabledAmong the careers that will always be in demand, evenin a recession, are those that involve caring for people withdisabilities.Allies Inc., a young organization that supports individuals withdevelopmentaldisabilities, has expanded from 900 feet in Robbinsville to 2,200feet on Route 33.Allies Inc. was founded by Krystal Odell, who had been chief operatingofficer of Community Options, the Farber Road-based company withsimilargoals. Several of the officers at Allies, including vice presidentElise Gambino, had also worked at Community Options. Odell is analumnaof Seton Hall, Class of 1979, and has a master’s in education andcounseling from Rider. When she left Community Options it was to bethe director of the New Jersey Division on Disability, and she leftthat post in 1999 to found this agency.Allies receives state funds to support 140 people in 47 residentialprograms — group homes, supervised apartments, and supportiveliving, 47 programs. Another supports the employment of 40individuals.In addition to the 20 people who work from the headquarters office,the agency employs about 120 field workers.Allies Inc., 2275 Route 33, Suite 303, HamiltonSquare 08619. Krystal Odell, president. 609-689-0136; fax,609-689-0831.Top Of PageNew in TownImage Arts Etc., 301 North Harrison Street,PrincetonShopping Center, Princeton 08540. James Lee, co-owner. 609-924-8544;fax, 609-924-8499.The digital photography company, new at the shopping center, providesan assortment of services for both the business and the individual.These include graphic design, art reproduction, digital editing, andportrait and event photography. Founded in 2002 by co-owners JamesLee and David Chambers, the company hopes to expand its staff size.Insulation Contractors Inc., 3A Marlen Drive,HamiltonBusiness Park, Hamilton 08691. 609-890-0036; fax, 609-890-2415.In August Insulation Contractors moved to Hamilton Business Park.The firm declined to give further information.Top Of PageExpansionsLearning Center of Princeton, 601 Ewing Street,Suite C-4 Princeton Professional Park, Princeton 08540. Jo AnnBarnosky,executive director. 609-921-0200; fax, 609-799-7647. Home page:www.learningcenterofprinceton.comLearning Center of Princeton, 50Princeton-HightstownRoad, Princeton Junction 08550. 609-799-6700; fax, 609-799-7647.The Learning Center has opened a second location on PrincetonHightstownRoad. It offers supplemental and enrichment instruction to studentsfrom age five through adult.Top Of PageContracts AwardedCenter for Health Care Strategies Inc., 1009 LenoxDrive, Suite 204, Lawrenceville 08648. Stephen A. Somers PhD,president.609-895-8101; fax, 609-895-9648. Home page: www.chcs.orgThe Center for Health Care Strategies will partner with Children’sFutures in assisting Trenton-area hospitals and health clinics improvethe quality of prenatal care.The three-year project, Improving Maternal and Newborn Health Carein Trenton, will be conducted by CHCS’ Best Clinical andAdministrativePractices initiative. CHCS is a nonprofit that administers healthcare programs, principally funded by the Robert Wood JohnsonFoundation.Isles, 10 Wood Street, Trenton 08618. MartinJohnson,president. 609-393-5656; fax, 609-393-9513. Home page:www.isles.orgIsles has received a $639,000 grant from the Community HousingDevelopmentOrganizations program of the New Jersey Department of CommunityAffairs.The grant will help to rehabilitate Bellevue Court, a 22-unit homeownership project. Along with the Isles grant, the city of Trentonreceived a $660,313 grant from the State Balanced Housing NeighborhoodPreservation program for the same purpose.The Trenton-based agency promotes self-sufficiency in distressedcommunitiesthrough its affordable housing, job training, community gardens,brownfieldsrestoration, and urban environmental education programs.Top Of PageCrosstown MovesCorporate Printing and Copying Inc., 29 EmmonsDrive, G-40, West Windsor 08550. Stewart Lapidus, owner. 609-520-0777.The 16-year-old commercial printing company moved from 7 Deer ParkDrive in Monmouth Junction to 29 Emmons Drive in West Windsor.Accordingto owner Stewart Lapidus, the company moved in order to get closerto its Princeton-area customer base. Lapidus says he started thecompanyin 1986, when he owned Creative Coupons in South Brunswick, so thathe would no longer have to send out for his own printing. The newlocation is the same size, roughly 1,400 square feet, with no changein staff size.Industrial Packaging Supply, 107-A North GoldDrive,Robbinsville 08691-1603. Ron Kocheran, vice president. 609-259-6888;fax, 609-259-6885. Home page: www.nncrew.orgThe 12-year-old company moved from 182-H Ridge Road in Dayton to NorthGold Drive and has a new phone and fax. It distributes flexiblepackagingfilms and machinery.Prints of Windsor, 1274 Route 130 South, Windsor08561. J.F. Heinz, owner. 609-448-3400; fax, 609-448-0684.Founded in 1986, the commercial printing and desktop publishingcompanymoved from 2025 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, to 1274 Route 130in East Windsor. Owner J.F. Heinz cited financial reasons for themove, with their 1200 square feet of space and staff size of threeremaining unchanged.Ash-Lor Laminates Inc., 1700 Sylvan Avenue,Hamilton08619. Norm Mayfield, president. 609-448-0200; fax, 609-448-1195.Home page: www.ashlor.comThe cabinetry company has moved from 5,000 feet at Windsor IndustrialPark Hamilton. It does cabinet refacing, custom counter tops,cabinets,windows, and remodeling.JRM Construction, 2277 Route 33, Golden CrestCorporateCenter, Suite 411, Hamilton 08690. James R. McCagg II, president.609-587-6742; fax, 609-586-0639.Last spring the construction company moved from Lexington SquareCommonsto Golden Crest Corporate Center. The company specializes in customframing.Top Of PageLeaving TownExecuTrain of New Jersey, 2 Tower Center Boulevard,East Brunswick 08816. 732-937-9600; fax, 973-539-1666. Home page:www.executrain.comThe world’s largest computer training and support firm has reorganizedand closed its Tower Center office in East Brunswick. Trainingrequestsare being handled through the Mount Laurel office. Most of the CentralJersey business, says Andy Atkins, chairman, is from Fortune 1000companies that need onsite training.Executrain’s managers bought out the company, which had been soldto Boston-based IDG in the early 1990s. “Such buybacks byfranchiseowners are rare, and in terms of company size and high awareness ofthe ExecuTrain name, this is one of the most significant,” saysthe press release that told of the buyback.”We hit 2001 and that changed a few things,” says Atkins.”I brought back the founder, Mike Addison, and Ray Kelly is theCEO. We have 100 locations in the United States and 230 offices in35 countries worldwide.” Founded in 1984, ExecuTrain isheadquarteredin Alpharetta, Georgia, and has trained more than 10 million peopleworldwide.Gateway Funding Diversified Mortgage Services,1 Mall Drive, Suite 500, Cherry Hill 08002. Allan Smith, branchmanager.609-671-1080; fax, 856-667-0933. gateway-funding.comThe mortgage company has moved from 1230 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, toCherry Hill.Westaff, 190 Route 18, East Brunswick 08816.732-296-1100;fax, 732-296-1277. Www.westaff.comThe temporary staffing service closed an office at 123 Franklin CornerRoad and business is being handled from East Brunswick.Top Of PageDeathMaurice A. Mather, 82, on August 13. He had been a funeraldirector at Mather Funeral Home, now known as Mather-Hodge FuneralHome on Vandeventer Street.Previous StoryNext StoryCorrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
