Business View Magazine | August 2019

305 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE AUGUST 2019 NORTH BRUNSWI CK , NEW JERSEY the zoning have resulted in both Costco and Target having glass fronts and trellises that fit in with a Main Street downtown appearance, something extremely uncommon for big box retailers. Other New Jersey municipalities have begun to adopt similar architectural standards for big box retail. According to Womack, “Last year, the State of New Jersey and Middlesex County made a joint commitment to fund the rail station, and the township is hopeful that a date to begin construction of the rail platform will be announced before the end of the year. This will be the first new rail station on the Northeast Corridor in the past 20 years. While the township has two commercial areas today, the transit village will result in the legitimate downtown area that we have never had.” More recently, further supporting the township’s belief that regional problems can’t always be solved by waiting for actions and funding from the federal or state governments, the township became the first municipality in New Jersey to pictured Townhomes in the transit village, built by Pulte pictured Main Street, Transit Village