Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • Princeton recreation plan eyes $33 million in projects

    By Katie Wagner / Staff Writer    PRINCETON — The Princeton Joint Recreation Board has presented a Parks and Recreation Master Plan that includes a $15.1 million-community and recreation center and improvements to Community Park Pool estimated at $7.9 million to the Township Committee and Borough Council.    The 278-page document, which includes an inventory of Princeton’s…

  • Expansion plan approved for W. Windsor church

    Expansion plan approved for W. Windsor church

    By Greg Forester / Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The Church of St. David the King has received unanimous Planning Board approval for plans that call for a 24,000-square-foot expansion that will eventually provide additional space for parish activities.    The only catch in the approval was a facetious condition of approval that the pastor of…

  • Expansion plan approved for W. Windsor church

    Expansion plan approved for W. Windsor church

    The Church of St. David the King in West Windsor has had its expansion plan approved by the township planning board. Photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Buyer backs out of 3M Belle Mead plant deal

    By Greg Forester / Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — A public review of the second phase of stormwater management improvements at 3M’s Belle Mead plant has been canceled, after a prospective buyer for the sprawling, Sourland Mountain site backed out of negotiations.    Future buyers would continue 3M’s efforts in controlling the tainted stormwater that originates on…

  • Princeton wants to recycle schools building as rec center

    By Katie Wagner / Staff Writer    PRINCETON — The Township Committee will likely adopt a resolution next week that indicates its interest in building new indoor municipal recreation facilities on the Valley Road site owned by the Princeton Regional School District, according to Township Administrator Jim Pascale.    The Valley Road site contains a multi-building complex,…

  • Princeton park to get synthetic turf field

    Princeton park to get synthetic turf field

    Barbara Smoyer Park, off Snowden Lane in Princeton, is now slated to get a synthetic turf field. Photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Bank of Princeton makes management changes

    By Lauren Otis / Staff Writer    PRINCETON — After 17 months in operation, a senior management shakeup has hit The Bank of Princeton, the Princeton-based community bank.    Peter Crowley, one of the Bank of Princeton’s founding investors, and its president and chief executive officer since inception has left, as has Gerard Murray, formerly the bank’s…

  • Council majority jumpstarts West Windsor planning

    By Greg Forester / Staff Writer Greg ForesterStaff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — A bloc of council members, seeking to jumpstart a redevelopment process that has resulted in growing frustration among residents, have scrapped plans for another review session and instructed the RMJM Hillier firm to immediately synthesize a draft redevelopment plan.    Having a draft plan…

  • Local flavor will be important feature of Momos’ Eno Terra

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    KINGSTON — This sleepy colonial wayfaring stop is soon to gain a new identity: as a wine and food mecca.    After a year-long $3 million basement-to-rooftop renovation and expansion, Eno Terra — the most ambitious restaurant venture yet for Terra Momo Restaurant Group owners Raoul and Carlo Momo — has…