First phase is for 199 units, a club house and a nine-hole golf course to be designed by Arnold Palmer
By: Al Wicklund
MONROE – Toll Brothers is working to have its model houses for the new Regency at Monroe planned retirement community ready by spring.
"We plan to have five model homes to show early next year," John Jakominich, senior project manager for the development company, said Wednesday.
He said grading work has started on the Regency site off Buckelew Avenue (Route 522) and Spotswood-Englishtown Road.
Toll Brothers of Huntington Valley, Pa., received the township Planning Board’s approval for the first phase of the Regency, previously known as the Rivieria, last November, Laura Zalewski, Planning Board secretary said.
The first phase is for 199 units, a club house and a nine-hole golf course to be designed by golf great Arnold Palmer, according to the Toll Brothers’ application.
To be built on 325 acres, the Regency plans call for the eventual construction of 857 single-family detached buildings along with the club house and the golf course. Mr. Jakominich said cost of the homes has yet to be determined.
Mr. Jakominich said the company is now engaged in "land-development work."
"We expect to have our sales sector on site in October," he said. "The first model home could be ready by mid-September."
Mr. Jakominich said Toll Brothers is hoping for favorable weather for optimal development.
"We hope to have three holes of the golf course ready by winter.
"Next spring the model park, with five model homes, will be built with a view of the golf course," he said.
Mr. Jakominich said the Regency will have eight different styles of homes.
He said the foundation for the club house is scheduled to be in place this fall.
"We hope to have the building complete by the end of 2001. Much depends on what kind of winter weather we have," Mr. Jakominich.
The Regency at Monroe is one of two planned retirement communities approved by the Planning Board.
The other, Brookside at Monroe, 397 single-family detached dwellings and a club house on 122 acres, was approved March 23, Ms. Zalewski said.
The property is behind the Wawa Mall, running along Applegarth Road, Cranbury-Half Acre Road and Prospect Plains Road.
No planned construction timetable has been announced by the developer, Prospect Plains Associates, a Kalian Company based in Red Bank.