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Golden Triangle Application Set for April

Toll Brothers wants to build a retail center on the Golden Triangle site, though an application on file with the township does not mention who would call the building home.

East Brunswick will get a step closer to seeing what’s slated for the Golden Triangle site next month.

Toll Brothers is seeking site plan approval to build a 151,507-square-foot building on the property and will present its application to the Planning Board at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 4.

The application, on file at the township Planning Department, calls for the demolition of the existing building and the construction of a commercial/retail component on the site. Toll Brothers is seeking a use variance because it’s proposing 722 parking spaces. For a proposal that big, 758 parking spaces are required.

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According to the application, the shopping center is expect to create between 250 and 275 permanent jobs, and its hours of operation will be 7 a.m. to midnight seven days a week. Entrances to the facility include one from Route 18, one from the Old Bridge Turnpike, and two on Tices Lane.

In January, Planning Board approved an application by Toll Brothers to subdivide the property into two lots, a 16.132-acre  parcel for retail, and a 7.191-acre tract for residential development. The retail component will border Route 18 and the residential component will border the Old Bridge Turnpike.

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, Toll Brothers is allowed to build up to 220,000 square feet of commercial retail space—with no one store being larger than 180,000 square feet—and 200 to 400 housing units. Under the agreement, no more than 10 percent of those units can be three bedroom apartments. Mayor David Stahl has said he expects Toll Brothers to build close to the maximum number of units allowed.

, Toll Brothers presented a concept drawing of it’s basic proposal, which included a 155,000-square-foot building located in the same area as current structures on the land, and a 400 unit apartment complex behind that, at the corner of Tices Land and Old Bridge Turnpike.

The agreement brought an end to years of litigation with Toll Brothers regarding the property—which is bordered by Route 18, Tices Lane and the Old Bridge Turnpike and was formerly home to Sam’s Club.


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