Treuman property will become N.B. Market Place

NORTH BRUNSWICK — The former Treuman storage site along Route 130 is one step closer to being redeveloped.

During a special Planning Board meeting last month, the preliminary site plan application for North Brunswick Market Place was approved unanimously for Block 224, Lots 2, 5, 6, 8 and 87 at the intersection of Route 130 north and Davidson’s Mill Road.

The 23.8-acre site will be developed into a fast food restaurant, a freestanding bank, 15,000 square feet of retail space, and roughly 50,000 square feet for at least two large retail establishments.

In May the Township Council adopted an ordinance that changed a portion of Route 130 north from Davidson’s Mill Road to Quarry Lane from industrial to commercial to allow for this type of development.

According to testimony during the Planning Board meeting, the traffic proposal is to have a right-in, right-out of Route 130, and will prohibit trucks from entering via Davidson’s Mill Road. The tractor-trailer traffic is expected to be 15 trucks per operating day, according to Karl Pehnke of Langan Engineering, and would need to use jughandles either at Raider Road or at the Route 1 bridge to get back onto Route 130 south.

Pehnke said “the driveways will operate at acceptable levels of service” and that Route 130 and Davidson’s Mill Road will have to be “geometrically improved.”

“The majority of the traffic impact will be on the Route 130 corridor, and that falls under the jurisdiction of the state Department of Transportation,” he said of any necessary improvements that may be needed.

Davidson’s Mill Road is a township road, and its widening was discussed.

In terms of vehicles, 10 percent of traffic will come from the east on Davidson’s Mill Road, Pehnke said, resulting in about 29 vehicles making a right into the site and 31 making a right out during the peak period of 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. He said that coming southbound on Route 130, about 129 vehicles will make a left turn in and 143 vehicles will make a right turn out during the same timeframe.

Pehnke said there will be appropriate vehicular circulation within the site and that there will also be pedestrian- and bikefriendly pathways and crosswalks.

Ron Aulenbach, director of engineering, planning and development for Edgewood Properties, which is the parent company of the applicant DM Investments of North Brunswick LLC, said the applicant is evaluating the environmental situation of the property to see if it will be deed-restricted or be deemed “no further action required.”

Contact Jennifer Amato at

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