​THE STATE'S PLAN:
Suburban Style Buildings
​at the Edge of Trenton's Downtown

In September 2016, Governor Christie announced a major development plan for new State office buildings in Trenton:
- Demolish the Taxation Building (West State & Barrack Streets) and relocate 1,000 state employees from a West State Street location to a site at the very edge of downtown
- Demolish the Health and Agriculture Buildings (South Warren Street / John Fitch Way)
- Build corporate park style offices on Willow Street (currently parking lots)
- Build corporate park style offices on the Health and Agriculture (South Warren) site

These plans will disperse state employees, depriving downtown businesses of their much needed patronage, and stymie efforts to build a denser, walkable, transit-oriented downtown in accordance with State and City plans. Explore the current plan, see our alternative vision, and get involved!

THE TIGHT TIMELINE

This was the NJEDA Planned timeline:
14 February 2017  NJEDA Board Meeting to approve architect and construction manager
Feb 2017: Phase 1 (Design) - expected to last six months
April-June 2017: BUDGET AND BONDS APPROVALS - details coming soon.
July-Sept 2017: Bonds issued
Sept 2017: Phase II (Pre-construction)
Sept 2017- Sept 2019: 
Construction
July 2019-Sept 2019: Demolition

DOCUMENTS

NJEDA Overview Presentation
21 September 2016

KSS Architects Feasibility Study
15 April 2015
Full document (lower res) 
Volume 1: includes detailed maps and plans for all the proposed buildings
Volume 2 & 3 : includes the financial analysis of the proposed developments.

Taxation Building Study
26 August 2013
Lammey & Giorgio, Architects
This document looks at the systems in the current Taxation building at State/Barrack Streets and is the basis on which the demo/build-new decision was made.

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