Frank Wong has worked for Rutgers University for 30 years, but the last five have been especially busy for the head of the school’s planning and development office.
That’s no surprise, given the high-profile projects seen at Rutgers’ flagship campus in recent years — from the “wildly successful” new 550-bed residential honors college in New Brunswick to the iconic town square and retail space known as The Yard at College Avenue.
The latest thing that Trenton makes? Try Munchkins.
That may soon be the case under a proposal by a team of Dunkin’ Donuts franchisees. A nearly $17 million project calls for redeveloping two buildings in the city into a new 69,000-square-foot central bakery plant, serving more than 130 stores in the region and producing hundreds of thousands of doughnuts and other products every week.
There is no shortage of pitfalls that developers and general contractors can face in New Jersey, but it looks as though one longtime source of angst may be gone for good. Late this summer, the state Supreme Court ruled that faulty work by subcontractors can be covered under a general contractor’s insurance policy.
