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  due diligence in assessing the site and designing the project, Mele said.
Sayreville’s redevelopment agency
has been also working for decades
to attract new development for this and other large industrial tracts in the borough, which sits on the Raritan Bay.
The new buildings are part of that cleanup in that they will serve as
a “cap” for soil remediation, said John Pollock, senior vice president with TCC’s
Philadelphia business unit. He said the project is designed for sustainability,
as the goal is to
achieve silver
certification on
John Pollock the U.S. Green
Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design scale.
“The Arsenal project is unique because it’s also part of a redevelopment plan that has been in the works for years,” Pollock said. “This is something that is one of the best examples of recycling land.”
KSS Architects is designing the trade center and RC Andersen is acting
as the general contractor, while CBRE’s Thomas F. Monahan, Larry Schiffenhaus, Stephen D’Amato and Ben Shapiro are the project’s leasing team.
“It’s a vast amount of land in a densely populated area,” Pollock said. “The best use is to create ratables and jobs for the people of Sayreville, to bring jobs to the area.”
Sayreville Historian Frank Terzino worked as a lab technician at Hercules for 28 years and said he
was saddened to see the chemical plant and many trees surrounding it destroyed. But he was hopeful that Arsenal would benefit the community. “Hopefully it will create jobs,” he said.
The developers have agreed to fund road and intersection improvements near the site in the Parlin neighborhood, which has a mix of industrial, commercial and residential properties. In addition to concerns about truck traffic, some residents have lamented the thousands of
trees razed to prepare the site for
Courtesy: TCC
 Trammell Crow Co. and a fund managed by CBRE Investment Management joined project partners on Sept. 19 to break ground on a three-building, 1.078 million-square-foot industrial park at 50 South Minisink Ave. in Sayreville.
building. The joint venture has given $1.7 million to Sayreville’s shade tree commission to plant trees throughout the borough.
Beyond that contribution, the developers are planting close to
1,000 trees at the Arsenal site, TCC spokeswoman Elise Maguire Ferrara said. At the groundbreaking, TCC also announced a $100,000 donation to nearby Middlesex College to aid those studying architecture, engineering, construction, supply chain or logistics.
Meantime, Mele said TCC, which has development projects around the country, will be looking to do more in New Jersey. The firm recently sold its interest in Innovation Park, a project it developed for high-tech and pharma tenants on nearly 90 acres in East Windsor.
“We’re always loading the pipeline with new opportunities,” he said. “Our long-term focus is to be doing projects in Northeast.” RE
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