Cranbury breaks ground on police HQ
By:Josh Appelbaum
An official groundbreaking ceremony for the new Cranbury police station will take place Monday at 3 p.m. on Police Drive off Station Road.
Mark Berkowsky, president of Berkowsky and Associates of Cranbury; Vice President of Construction Tim Neylan; representatives from the station’s contractor, M&K Contracting of Colts Neck; and Myland Architectural Group will be at the ceremony to commemorate the beginning of work on the station.
Members of the Township Committee and the Cranbury Police Department are expected to be on hand, according to Berkowsky and Associates Marketing Coordinator Eric L. Berkowsky.
He said the contractors and architects expect to receive final approval for construction from the township today (Friday).
The Township Committee awarded a $3.2 million contract for the construction of a new police station to M&K Contracting on Aug. 30. Township officials expect construction to start in the next few months.
Under the current plan, the new police station will be a one-story, L-shaped, 16,000-square-foot building. It will be built on a 1.9-acre parcel on Station Road, adjacent to the Cabot Industrial Park.
The station is expected to have a public waiting area with two bathrooms, a police training room, women’s and men’s locker rooms, a crime lab, temporary holding facilities, a computer and communications room, a conference room, an armory, several storage closets and a break room.
There also will be 2,000 square feet of unassigned space for future expansion. The space would remain open and will allow the township to expand the station above ground.