Riviera construction to get under way soon

Toll Brothers will begin building an age-restricted development off One Mile Road.

By: David Pescatore
   EAST WINDSOR — The first age-restricted housing development in East Windsor is ready to break ground.
   Construction on Riviera at East Windsor is scheduled to begin in May, with the first residents moving in during the spring of 2004.
   Riviera at East Windsor will be an "active-adult" community located on 148 acres off One Mile Road, near the on-ramp for Route 133. The community will serve people more than 55 years old with no children under 19.
   The development will consist of 375 single-family homes with prices starting in the mid-$200,000 range. There will be eight varieties of houses ranging from 1,700 to 2,600 square feet situated on an average lot of 5,500 square feet.
   The community was slated to begin construction in the winter of 2002, but was delayed for eight months when pre-development surveys turned up thousands of prehistoric artifacts, including tools and ceramics.
   Toll Brothers, the builder that owns Riviera, will be holding a seminar Tuesday night to provide interested homeowners with information on purchasing sites.
   Toll Brothers operates 170 communities in 22 states.
   Kira McCarron, vice president of marketing for Toll Brothers, said the community will have a 12,000- square-foot clubhouse, a fitness center, indoor and outdoor swimming pools tennis courts and bocce courts.
   Each of these things, along with jogging paths, is required of a community with the "age-restricted housing" zoning designation. Another requirement is that 30 percent of the land be set aside for conservation, recreation, or open space.
   Toll Brothers Marketing Director Trina Lawry said the developer has completed construction of similar communities in a three- to four-year time period, depending on sales.
   The seminar will take place April 8, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency on Route 1 in Princeton.
   For more information or to RSVP for the seminar, call 371-2600.