Plainfield: The Randolph Makes it Official with a Ribbon Cutting

PLAINFIELD, NJ — Managing Partner William J. Colgan of CHA Partners said at a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday that two-thirds of the 120 units at the 186,000-square-foot property dubbed The Randolph, a new rental development on the site of the former Muhlenberg Hospital, are already rented. Construction began in late 2019, and the project included environmental remediation and site-wide traffic and circulation improvements.

Colgan told the assembled group that the market rate project was “probably the hardest project CHA has ever done.” He said when the hospital closed in 2008, it left a “gaping wound” in the Plainfield community, with everyone wanting to see the hospital reopened, even though it was never going to happen. His project, he recalled, was an “extremely unpopular decision” at the time.

COVID-19 care facility opens in former East Hanover office building

A vacant East Hanover office building recently adapted into a new senior-living facility has again been repurposed to temporarily treat victims recovering from COVID-19. The Atlantic Health System and RWJBarnabas Health have begun transferring stable COVID-19 patients to the 125-bed facility, which will continue for as long as acute-care bed capacity is needed at the hospitals. “It […]

Expecting a surge in coronavirus, rural N.J. hospital renovates to take on more patients

Salem County’s main hospital is undergoing a renovation to help combat the coronavirus. Salem Medical Center announced Monday it would be retrofitting rooms in the hospital to create 58 new hospital beds specifically for coronavirus patients. Every room of the hospital’s third and fourth floors are being set up for negative air pressure and telemetry, and the […]