285-unit senior housing plan pitched for 16.6 acres in Wayne
By: Philip DeVencentis
NorthJersey.com
USA Today Network - New Jersey
WAYNE - the zoning board was set to hear an application Monday [02/03/2025] for a 285-unit project for senior citizens on Hamburg Turnpike .
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The redevelopment would satisfy part of the township demand for affordable housing, as 57 apartments would be for low-income residents.
..... The 16.6-acre property at 1970 Hamburg Turnpike and at 1982 Hamburg Turnpike lies west of Colfax Road and just north of Armstrong Avenue, on the opposite side of the street. Two single-family homes there would be demolished.
..... The largely wooded trace is divided into five lots with two owners, now under contract with March Associates Construction Incorporated of Wayne to redevelop the property. Because the land is zoned only for single-family homes, a use variance is required.
..... March Associates is the same builder that put on The Parke at Hamburg, a local shopping center anchored by Trader Joe's food store and The Yard, a smaller retail strip at the former site of More's Home for Funerals. It also constructed a new warehouse, less than 2 miles form the proposed apartment at Farmingdale Road and Pompton Plains Crossroad.
..... The residential project would have five buildings - one with 45 units, and the rest with 60. Each five-story structure would include two levels for parking.
..... There would be a total of 556 parking spots.
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The age-restricted development would have 58 apartments with one bedroom, and 227 with two bedrooms. It would also have a guardhouse at its interference and exit off Hamburg Turnpike, as well as a 9,083square-foot clubhouse with a fire-pit, an open-air grilling space, a patio, a swimming pool and two tennis courts that could be converted for pickleball.
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March Associates would remove 622 trees and replace them with 443 trees. A memo to the zoning board from its engineering consultant said the developer may need to plant more trees elsewhere in the township, or provide a substitute payment, to make up for that deficit.