The owner of a property eyed for a warehouse development near Monroe is not interested in putting the parcel into farmland preservation, Cranbury Mayor Glenn R. Johnson said.
Johnson said on Sept. 17 that he had called Vincent Visceglia, a principal of Garden State Buildings LP, a subsidiary of Summit Associates, based in Edison.
“And I explained that there are some people who are concerned about the plans for his property and that the lots that he intends to develop are on the county’s list for farmland preservation,” Johnson said of land between Hightstown-Cranbury Station Road and Halsey Reed Road.
“I asked him if he’d be interested, and he said no,” Johnson said. “But he explained that they’ve owned the property for a long time and they feel that this is the time to realize the benefits of their investment.”
Visceglia could not be reached for comment.
As of Sept.19, a development application for the 18-acre-site has not been submitted to the municipal planning office.
Residents of Cranbury and Monroe became aware of a concept for two warehouses on the property. They approached the Township Committee over the summer to express quality-of-life concerns of living in an area with truck traffic from the warehouses already there. At the time, the governing body indicated it would approach the owner to see if farmland preservation was an option.