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Roads Currently Open & Closed on Skillman Village Property - Sept. 2008

In 2007 the Township of Montgomery purchased a 256 acre parcel of land once known as the North Princeton Developmental Center (“NPDC”) from the State of New Jersey, located in Montgomery adjoining Skillman Road and Burnt Hill Road. In addition, the Township has acquired from the State the adjacent wastewater treatment facility on 7 acres, behind the State-owned Skillman Dairy Farm. The NPDC property, originally established in 1898 as the “New Jersey Village for Epileptics,” operated as a self-contained “town” that consisted of hospitals, housing, maintenance areas, schools, a power plant, a wastewater treatment facility and an on-site landfill. Later, it became the New Jersey Neuropsychiatric Institute. Most recently, and until 1998, the property was the New Jersey Department of Human Services' psychiatric care facility "North Princeton Developmental Center".

For years there were over 100 buildings on the Property, mostly in substandard, unsafe, unsanitary, dilapidated and/or obsolescent condition. Ninety-two of these buildings were abated and demolished summer 2007. The remainding handful of buildings have been boarded up in anticipation of possible reuse as part of redevelopment. Efforts are on-going to remediate environmental conditions at the site and repair the dam and restore the lake.The property’s environmental contamination must be remediated and brought into compliance with applicable laws and regulations. All asbestos wrapped steampipes throughout the property were removed by fall 2008. Other remediation work is wrapping up, as is the lake restoration, in 2009. For more information, go to Clean-up page.

The Township has prepared a redevelopment plan and is accepting redevelopment proposals. It has been decided that the redevelopment area will be known as "Skillman Village". For more information on this, go to Redevelopment Planning.

Many questions are addressed on the FAQ page.

For latest news releases regarding NPDC/Skillman Village, go to NDPC News page.

For the latest Montgomery Township news in general, go to Bulletins page . Receive Montgomery Township news bulletins directly to your email by self-subscribing (its easy!). Look for green envelope at left.

 

Public involvement and input into this project is welcomed and encouraged. Questions? Contact Planning Director, Lori Savron, 908-359-8211 ext. 206, lsavron@twp.montgomery.nj.us or Community Information Officer, Tammy Garaffa, 908-359-8211 ext. 207, tgaraffa@twp.montgomery.nj.us.

 

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