Past perfect: CHA architect explains how she incorporates history into modern design in projects such as the Randolph in Plainfield
By: Brett Johnson | ROI-NJ
Maybe there’s a trifecta of material price hikes, labor shortages and economic uncertainty looming large in real estate. Talking to architect Judy Donnelly, you wouldn’t guess it.
For her and other building designers, nothing budgetary so far distracts them from their usual philosophy.
Adaptive Reuse Projects Present Equal Measures of Challenges, Opportunities
By: Taylor Williams | Northeast Real Estate Business
Adaptive reuse projects have continued to garner the attention of the commercial real estate community, especially in light of the lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While office and retail conversion projects have remained popular in numerous markets over the last several years, in certain parts of the country, projects involving the adaptive reuse of hospitals and healthcare facilities have also played a major role in bringing new life back to communities.
With new apartments, reuse of Plainfield hospital site taking shape after more than a decade
By Joshua Burd
CHA Partners recently unveiled a new 120-unit apartment building at the site of the former Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center in Plainfield, doing so more than a decade after the hospital’s closure devastated city residents and set off an emotional, multiyear battle to repurpose the site.
With new apartments, reuse of Plainfield hospital site taking shape after more than a decade
By Joshua Burd
The new six-story, 120-unit apartment building known as The Randolph has brought new life to a vast structure on the former Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center campus in Plainfield.
As Bill Colgan points out — and seemingly embraces — its previous use is still evident in many places throughout the property.
“Here is where you feel the remnants of an old hospital,” he said during a recent tour of the building, as he entered a central, open lobby area that once housed nursing stations and other functions, but will now serve as additional lounge or co-working space for residents.”
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.
CHA Partners Debuts Multifamily Element of Plainfield Hospital Site Redevelopment
CHA Partners has completed and is leasing the multifamily addition to its redevelopment of the former Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center in Plainfield, New Jersey.
The Bloomfield, New Jersey-based company has opened the Randolph Apartments, a new, 120-unit luxury apartment building at 1330 Randolph Road. The residential property is part of CHA Partner’s master-planned redevelopment of the hospital campus, which also includes the creation of a new community-based healthcare facility to be known as the Muhlenberg Medical Arts Complex.
CHA, city officials mark debut of apartments, redevelopment of ex-hospital site in Plainfield
CHA Partners has unveiled a new 120-unit luxury apartment building in Plainfield, part of a master-planned redevelopment of the city’s former Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center.
Known as The Randolph Apartments, the complex has opened at 1330 Randolph Road at a site that will also include a new community-based health care facility. The property is already nearly 65 percent leased after hitting the market early this year, CHA said, breathing new life into the area after the hospital closed in 2008.
The developer, which is known for repurposing shuttered hospitals, celebrated the milestone on Wednesday alongside Mayor Adrian O. Mapp and other stakeholders.
The Randolph: Residential phase of redevelopment of former Muhlenberg hospital holds ribbon-cutting
Plainfield Mayor Adrian Mapp was thrilled to be at the ribbon-cutting for the Randolph Apartments, a 120-unit luxury rental development that features one- and two-bedroom units and a lot of amenities, including a community coworking space that is ideal for a hybrid work environment.
Mapp was even happier at what is still to come.
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.