Business View Civil Municipal - Sept 2023

84 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 9 than 20 years ago. This will be the location of the new ShopRite store and Target. Tying in with the economy of course is the local infrastructure. The mayor cited a guardrail project expected to save lives along the Route Nine corridor, one of New Jersey’s busiest roads. “We’ve been fighting for that guardrail for over a decade,” he says, citing multiple fatalities along this stretch of highway as it goes through Old Bridge. “We finally convinced the DOT state agency to install sections of the guardrail in Phase I, and future sections are coming along in Phase II.” Henry also referenced a brownfield site that’s being developed: an old landfill in the northern section of Old Bridge. “This was operated as a landfill for many years,” says Henry. “Since closure, it’s been capped, and we have a solar farm coming to that location, and that is part of the Community Energy Program that the State has approved. It allows people to take advantage of solar power who normally don’t have W W W . C E N T R A L 9 N J . C O M 9 BUILDING STATE-OF -THE-ART INDUSTRIAL PARK TOTAL ING ± 4.2M SF J A K E B R OWN R O A D | O L D B R I D G E , N E W J E R S E Y Mindy Lissner, SIOR Vice Chair +1 732 243 3102 mindy.lissner@cushwake.com