Woolwich Township, New Jersey
8 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 7 WOOLWI CH TOWNSHI P , NEW JERSEY recreation with Woolwich. “The borough being in the middle of our township gives the area a kind of downtown feel,” Callahan says. “We also have what I would call suburban town centers forming, like the Center Square district, which is where a lot of the homes have been built over the last 20 years in the Weatherby Development. That’ll be about 4,200 homes when it’s built out. There are some medical buildings, a bank, a retail strip, a liquor store, and a bunch of other service-type businesses. It’s where the Shoprite – our township’s first supermarket – is currently being built.” By comparison, Route 322 will be a whole other process of building every type of housing that you can imagine, from condos to townhomes to affordable housing. We’re wanting to create a kind of bookend community, for residents coming in who are in their early 20s and those who are towards the end of their career. So, we’re building non-gated communities closer to the center of town and small to large single-family homes throughout the town.” Woolwich is a doughnut-shaped township, with a conventional small-town Main Street running through it. Nestled inside the township is the cozy community of Swedesboro, which shares services for police, fire rescue, and parks and
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