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This article by Barbara Fox was prepared for the August 28, 2002 edition of U.S. 1 Newspaper. All rights reserved.
Graves: Teapots To Police HQs?
First, a teapot. Now, a firing range? If the state continues
with its plan, the office of architect Michael Graves will design
a new professional training center and headquarters complex for the
New Jersey state police at the site of the existing headquarters in
Ewing. Designs by Michael Graves & Associates, in association with
STV Architects, were unveiled on August 23. The $125 million cost
would be funded through the State Building Authority.
As with a college campus, the new training center would include a
200,000 square foot building with classrooms and an interactive learning
center, plus dormitories for 200 recruits, dining hall, gymnasium,
pool, and an indoor firing range. It would have simulators for driving
and firearms training and various settings for tactical drills. Sixteen
of the old headquarters buildings, which date to 1921, will be demolished
and the remaining buildings will be augmented with new construction
to total 200,000 feet of office space. An emergency operations center
will also be located here.
Two parcels totaling 9.69 acres at the corner of Route
206 and Cherry Valley Road were purchased for $1,750,000 to develop
a Commerce Bank and CVS drugstore. One two-acre piece of this site
used to be the Bahadurian Oriental rug firm, and the rest is undeveloped
land between Route 206 and Mount Lucas Road. Fronting on Cherry Valley
Road, it now holds two billboards.
“The agreement was signed in 1999 but it took a long time for
all the approvals, since it is in two townships and two counties,”
says Stephen M. Segal, who brokered the deal for both Princeton Cherry
Valley Properties LLC (the Mount Laurel-based developer for Commerce
Bank) and the sellers (Samuel Bahadurian and ABN Princeton Associates).
Site plans have been approved and construction should start in a couple of months.
American Logistics, 2 South Middlesex Avenue, CenterPoint Industrial Park, Cranbury 08512. Tom Yoos, president. 609-655-0840;fax, 609-655-0863. Www.americanlogisticsinc.comA two-year-old logistics and warehousing company occupies 218,000feet that formerly housed Wyeth-Ayerst. It is owned by partners TomYoos, Timothy Fox, and Timothy Brennan.Brennan is CEO of a sister firm, A-1 Pallet in Lumberton. Cushman& Wakefield represented the landlord.Homefix, 560 Lawrence Square Boulevard, Lawrenceville08648. Richard Tibbetts Jr., vice president of marketing. 609-587-8000;fax, 609-587-7788. Www.homefixcorporation.comA branch office of a national remodeling company opened at LawrenceSquare Boulevard. It does windows, siding, roofs, and doors.Top Of PageExpansionsAlco Industries, 111 Melrich Road, South BrunswickIndustrial Park, Cranbury 08512. Robert Villanova, manager. 609-409-3365;fax, 609-409-3352.Earlier this year ALCO Industries bought a 240,000 square-foot buildingin South Brunswick Industrial Park and plans to move there from itscurrent location in Edison (732-225-7200).Top Of PageDown-SizingPlatypus, 32A Jefferson Plaza, Princeton 08540.Jeffrey Schulman, owner. 732-274-9500; fax, 732-274-3366. Www.platypusonline.comThe headquarters office for Platypus moved from a 3,600 square-footwarehouse at 118 North Center Drive in North Brunswick to a six-personoffice at Jefferson Plaza. The company has six retail stores, includingone at MarketFair, which sell furniture, art, flatware, and dishes.It decided to utilize public storage instead of maintaining its ownspace.Research 100, 3490 Route 1, Building 16, Princeton08540. Mark H. Sandler, president. 609-924-6100; fax, 609-452-0138.Home page: www.research100.comAfter 30 years at Princeton Service Center, Research 100 closed itsdoors. It has an operational web page, but the telephone has beendisconnected and no other number is available in directory assistance.Last year the firm had 10 employees and expanded to 5,000 square feetby installing new focus room facilities (U.S. 1, July 11, 2001).The 12-person firm was founded in 1970 by Sandler’s father to offercustom market research to manufacturers, advertising and service organizations.Questions are being handled by John Crayton, a Moorestown attorneywith Crayton & Belknap.Top Of PageOut of BusinessNeighborhood Housing Services of Trenton Inc.,1018 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton 08629. 609-392-5494.This nonprofit agency has closed down, with 15 loans totaling $125,000outstanding. Established in 1978, the three-person agency dependedon donations from large corporations for 60 percent of its $200,000budget, but such funds have dwindled in the past several years. Dedicatedto improving Trenton’s neighborhoods, it offered home ownership counselingservices, and low-interest home improvement loans.Top Of PageLeaving TownApplied Industrial Technologies: New Jersey RubberShop (AIT), 21 Englehard Drive, Monroe 08831. 609-409-1000. Www.appliedindustrial.comThe Englehard Drive location for this Cleveland-based firm, whichmade rubber for conveyor belts, has closed. Calls are being takenby a branch in Appleton, Wisconsin. The headquarters number is 216-426-4000.Top Of PageDeathsEdmund B. Jones, 63, on August 17. He had owned PenningtonAuto Sales and been a professional photographer.Joseph E. “Skip” Hensler Jr., 55, on August 17.He worked for First Union Bank and at the former Lawrenceville HardwareStore, which was owned by his father.Previous StoryNext StoryCorrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
