The Gateway (New Brunswick)
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The Gateway is a mixed-use tower under construction in New Brunswick, New Jersey
adjacent to the Northeast Corridor Line
New Brunswick rail station
. It was proposed in February 2005 by DEVCO as part of the Easton-Somerset redevelopment area. Several businesses were relocated from the site during 2008 and 2009. The project is expected to be completed in September 2012, at a cost of $150 million.
The completed project will be the tallest building in New Brunswick, at 16 stories. A city spokesman described it as "like the center of the universe for people coming to New Brunswick." The Gateway is expected to attract residents and the university community downtown.
The Gateway will include:
New Brunswick, New Jersey
New Brunswick is a city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA. It is the county seat and the home of Rutgers University. The city is located on the Northeast Corridor rail line, southwest of Manhattan, on the southern bank of the Raritan River. At the 2010 United States Census, the population of...
adjacent to the Northeast Corridor Line
Northeast Corridor Line
The Northeast Corridor Line is a commuter rail operation run by New Jersey Transit along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. It is the successor to commuter services provided by the Pennsylvania Railroad along the section between Trenton, New Jersey and New York Penn Station...
New Brunswick rail station
New Brunswick (NJT station)
New Brunswick Station is a railroad station on the New Jersey Transit Northeast Corridor Line and the Amtrak Northeast Corridor in New Brunswick, New Jersey. New Brunswick has had a railroad station since the mid-19th century; the Pennsylvania Railroad built the current station in 1903 when the...
. It was proposed in February 2005 by DEVCO as part of the Easton-Somerset redevelopment area. Several businesses were relocated from the site during 2008 and 2009. The project is expected to be completed in September 2012, at a cost of $150 million.
The completed project will be the tallest building in New Brunswick, at 16 stories. A city spokesman described it as "like the center of the universe for people coming to New Brunswick." The Gateway is expected to attract residents and the university community downtown.
The Gateway will include:
- 656 spaces of parking (nine levels)
- A three-story Barnes & NobleBarnes & NobleBarnes & Noble, Inc. is the largest book retailer in the United States, operating mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores headquartered at 122 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District in Manhattan in New York City. Barnes & Noble also operated the chain of small B. Dalton...
store - New headquarters for the Rutgers University PressRutgers University PressRutgers University Press is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in Piscataway, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University.-History:...
- 42 condos, 120 regular housing units, and 38 affordable housingAffordable housingAffordable housing is a term used to describe dwelling units whose total housing costs are deemed "affordable" to those that have a median income. Although the term is often applied to rental housing that is within the financial means of those in the lower income ranges of a geographical area, the...
units (Reduced from 49 units of affordable housing planned in April 2010)