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ROCKEFELLER DETAILS LATEST
PISCATAWAY WAREHOUSE PROJECT
home of a Union Carbide Corp.
plastics manufacturing plant, which
required remediation before it could
be repurposed.
The site’s proximity to I-287
provides easy access to the New
Jersey Turnpike and Interstate
78, allowing for distribution in all
directions.
“A greener environment and a
boost to economic development,”
Piscataway Mayor Brian C. Wahler
said. “That’s what the Rockefeller
Group is bringing to Piscataway.
What was once a petrochemical
site with smokestacks will now be
cleaned and home to a state-of-the-
art logistics center that is bringing
good paying jobs to hardworking
residents.”
Rockefeller Group is set to build
another distribution center in
Piscataway, with plans to bring
more than 241,000 square feet of
modern logistics space to a former
brownfi eld site.
The fi rm said it has closed on the
36-acre property at 10 Normandy
Drive, which is adjacent to more
than 2.1 million square feet of
industrial space that it has built
in the township over the past
fi ve years. Known as Normandy
Logistics Center, the 241,200-square-
foot facility will have 40-foot clear
ceiling heights, parking for 162 cars
and 60 trailers and 41 single-load
loading docks, providing users
with a location that’s minutes from
Interstate 287.
regional director for Rockefeller
Group’s North Central region. “Like
our other recent industrial projects
in Piscataway,
Middlesex,
Spotswood
and Edison,
we are able
to redevelop
a former
brownfi eld site,
providing a
Heath Abramsohn
Class A building
on a site that sat fallow for more
than 30 years.”
Mancini Duffy and SESI Consulting
Engineers are the architect and
civil engineer, respectively, while
Alston Construction is the general
contractor.
Construction is slated to conclude
in the fourth quarter of 2025.
The project comes fi ve years after
Rockefeller marked the lease-up
and completion of the 2.1 million-
“Our latest project represents the
square-foot industrial campus in
fi nal developable parcel next to
the township. Developed as the
the former Union Carbide site in
Rockefeller Group Logistics Center,
Piscataway which operated for
the project revitalized the 228-acre
Rockefeller Group’s new 241,200-square-foot Normandy Logistics Center at 10
more than 80 years,” said Heath
property that was the longtime
Normandy Drive in Piscataway will have 40-foot clear ceiling heights, parking for 162
Abramsohn, vice president and
cars and 60 trailers and 41 single-load loading docks.
Rendering courtesy: Rockefeller Group