Totowa Master Redevelopment

Ground-up Construction | 7+ Years

Overview

The Totowa Master Redevelopment project represents CHA’s innovative, adaptive reuse, and redevelopment of the former North Jersey Developmental Center, a 140-acre campus previously operated by the State of New Jersey for nearly 100 years. The State shuttered the 35-building campus in 2012, and through a series of public-private partnership agreements by and among CHA, the State, and the Borough of Totowa, CHA obtained site control in 2018. As a part of its redevelopment efforts, CHA demolished 100% of the pre-existing structures, completed a significant amount of site work, including new utility services, roadways, and topography, and created five separately subdivided redevelopment parcels, summarized below.

Construction began in Q2 2018.

ParcelApproved UseApproved SF
Parcel 1Data Center276,000
Parcel 2Senior Living Facility310,000
Parcel 3Medical Office Building140,475
Parcel 4R&D Facility100,000
Parcel 5Data Center220,000
Totals 1,046,000

Building Highlights

  • Execution of complex land assemblage from the State of New Jersey
  • Creation of 600 permanent jobs and 500 construction jobs
  • Creation of new ratables
  • Clean-up of all site-wide environmental contamination
  • Improved flood controls, traffic circulation and exterior lighting