By Joshua Burd
The popular mixed-use development in New Brunswick known as The Yard @ College Avenue just got a bit more popular thanks to its newest addition — an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of a Rutgers University Scarlet Knight.
Representatives from New Brunswick Development Corp., the developer of The Yard, joined Rutgers officials last week to hoist the 9,000-pound monument as part of the annual Rutgers Day celebration. The statue, which sits atop a granite base, now greets visitors, students and other members of the Rutgers community who venture to the complex at College Avenue and Hamilton Street.
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Devco and Rutgers opened The Yard last fall, delivering 160 new apartments for undergraduates and some 15,000 square feet of retail space. At the center of the 14-story, U-shaped apartment building is a 25,000-square-foot public green space and a 320-square-foot outdoor LED monitor.
The roughly $90 million project is one component of a historic makeover at Rutgers’ College Avenue campus overseen by Devco over the past several years.
