By: Gwen Runkle
WEST WINDSOR The township Planning Board made it halfway through its review of the third and final phase of the Nassau Park Pavilion shopping center, bordered by Route 1 and Quakerbridge Road, Wednesday night.
After a previous application took longer than expected and several Quakerbridge Road residents voiced concerns about traffic, buffering and overall safety, the board decided to continue its review Feb. 12.
The third phase of the shopping center includes two separate buildings a 37,200-square-foot Babies R Us and a 40,800-square-foot miscellaneous retail store with more than 400 parking spaces on a 20-acre site that includes the land where Richard’s Farm Market is currently located, west of the Blue Tulip, Hollywood Tans and Famous Footwear stores.
Many neighboring residents of nearby Port Mercer near the Delaware & Raritan Canal, which borders the site to the north, said that despite plans to widen a portion of Nassau Park Boulevard in front of the new stores and improve turning lanes at several intersections, not enough was being done to improve traffic flow, both in the shopping center’s parking lots and on area roadways.
Others said while a large berm does protect residences from most sights and sounds in the shopping center, more might need to be done to block out lights and buildings as well as protect residents from crime.

