Bridgewater Planning Board Meeting Canceled, Warehouse Hearing Moved

BRIDGEWATER, NJ — The Bridgewater Planning Board meeting previously scheduled for Tuesday night has been canceled.

The application for Bridgewater Accessory Associates, LP will be carried to the Feb. 28 Planning Board meeting and the application for AR Bridgewater II LLC Extension will be carried to the March 14 meeting.

Bridgewater Accessory Associates, LP

Bridgewater Accessory Associates, LP is looking to demolish an existing warehouse/office building and construct a new 73,429 square foot building to also be used for warehouse/office purposes.

The warehouse is being proposed at Block 234, Lot 5 off Chimney Rock Road south of Route 22 across from Hoop Heaven and next to Franklin Electric.

The application would also include 12 loading docks to serve the building, and the property will have 80 parking spaces, 11 of which shall be landbanked.

To see the documents for this application click here and here.

AR Bridgewater II LLC

AR Bridgewater II LLC
Block 483, Lot 17
#21-037-PB – Extension of Final Site Plan Approval for a portion of the Predominantly
Commercial Phase and Extension of Preliminary Site Plan Approval for the
Predominately Residential Phase, Hotel and Grocer

This property is also known as the former Sanofi-Aventis property on Route 202/206. Bridgewater and Advance Realty reached a new agreement over the project at the former Sanofi-Aventis property in June 2022 after a two-and-a-half-year legal battle.

In June 2022, the township announced the new plan, which eliminates all housing, the supermarket, and the hotel.

The new settlement agreement also proposes an expansion in the life sciences/biotech building with a warehouse not to exceed 125,000 square feet per building or 300,000 square feet total in the zone. For comparison, a typical Amazon warehouse is 800,000 square feet.

Additionally, the new plan calls for 30,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space versus the 200,000 square feet initially proposed.

— Editor's note: The square footage of the building and number of parking spaces for the Bridgewater Accessory Associates, LP has been corrected.

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