A $500,000 grant from Middlesex County will help the township complete Harvest Woods Park on Culver Road.
By: Joseph Harvie
The township will receive a $500,000 grant from Middlesex County to help with the completion of Harvest Woods Park on Culver Road.
The township received a similar grant in August for $500,000 to help with the 77-acre park’s construction, Ron Schmalz, township public affairs coordinator, said Wednesday.
The money will be used to complete work on the park’s athletic fields. Work on the fields started when the Department of Public Works leveled out the former farm. The township purchased the land in April 2000 for $1.3 million from Robert Cronheim of Chatham.
Mayor Frank Gambatese said he is grateful for the money because it will help get the soccer fields in the park playable.
"With this grant, what we want to do is just complete the fields," Mayor Gambatese said. "We’ve worked on the fields from scratch and it was just an open farm field before we purchased it for open space."
"This park is solely dedicated to soccer," Mayor Gambatese said. "It really completes the last remaining piece for our construction of recreation fields in South Brunswick. It gives us enough soccer, basketball, and football fields to handle the thousands of kids playing all three. Also, we host each year a major soccer tournament in South Brunswick and this, in my opinion, will allow us to have the tournament and make it larger than it already is."

