1. CREATING A REDEVELOPMENT AGENDA
FOR NEW JERSY
REDEVELOPMENT FORUM 2012
GAF Factory Site: A
Brownfields Remediation
& Redevelopment Case
Study
South Bound Brook, NJ
Developed by:
The Matzel & Mumford Organization, Inc.
(a K. Hovnanian Company)
David Fisher, PP, AICP - Vice President

2. FORMER GAF FACTORY SITE

3. WHAT DEVELOPERS ARE LOOKING FOR
 LOCATION
- Access to jobs, highways & mass transit
- Shopping, recreation & cultural
 MARKET
- Buyer profile / demographics
- Condition of area, value, safety
- Schools
 OPPORTUNITY
- Cohesive political vision ~ regulatory partners
- Proper redevelopment planning
- Plan based on market realities
- Realistic uses, density, layout & design flexibility
- Appropriate use of recreation and civic spaces
 FINANCIAL
- Property owned by municipality ~ ideal (limit eminent domain)
- Acquisition assistance, if necessary. Especially where either infrastructure and/or
environmental conditions warrant significant up-front expenditures
- PILOT program? HDSRF funding? Environmental Infrastructure Trust?

4. ASBESTOS REMOVAL, DEMOLITION & SOIL REMEDIATION

5. SOIL REMEDIATION, CAPPING, DYNAMIC COMPACTION
& CANAL BANK RESTORATION

6. CANAL CROSSING PROJECT FEATURES
 CLEANUP & ACQUISITION OF 12.5 ACRES
- $8.3 Million remediation project with complex 4-party agreement between NJDEP,
Borough, M&M and former G-1 Holdings (RP)
 REPLACEMENT, UPGRADE AND EXTENSION OF OLD SANITARY
SEWER LINE TO ASSIST BORO IN LIFTING 20-YR OLD SEWER BAN
 152 TOWNHOMES
 23,000 S.F. OF MAIN STREET RETAIL SPACE, WITH 2nd STORY
RESIDENTIAL UNITS ABOVE
 ADDITIONAL SHARED PARKING (with existing Credit Union Bank)
 CREATION OF NEW “WATERFRONT PLAZA” AREA FOR BORO
 RESTORATION OF 1600 L.F. OF THE D&R CANAL
 CONSTRUCTION OF PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY/BIKE PATH ALONG
CANAL – CONNECTING TO TOW PATH
 PARTNERSHIP WITH BOROUGH & ELIZABETHTOWN WATER CO.
FOR PEDSTRIAN BRIDGE REHABILITATION
 3/4 AC. PARK PROPERTY TO SOUTH BOUND BROOK

7. PEDESTRIAN
BRIDGE
REHAB
SITE WORK
CONSTRUCTION BEGINS (Summer 2005)

8. BEFORE PHOTO: Significant blight on Borough’s Main Street; abandoned for more
than 20 years; some buildings more than 100 years old; no access to D&R Canal or towpath

9. AFTER PHOTO: Remediation complete, 152 Townhouse
condo’s; commercial site not yet developed