Meanwhile, Intercap CEO Steve Goldin is moving right along with his next public meeting scheduled for Sunday, April 6, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village in Plainsboro.##M:[more]##
In January Goldin began going public with his ideas for the 350-acre Princeton Junction train station redevelopment area. His company, Intercap Holdings, owns 25 acres of office property on Washington Road.
First came a meeting in February at the Village Grande, in which he shared visual depictions and designs for a “main street” around the Acme on Route 571.
Goldin also announced in January that his professionals were working on a comprehensive design of the New Jersey Transit, municipal, and Parking Authority properties that he claims will yield 1,”000 new parking spaces for West Windsor residents at an affordable cost, while also addressing the needs of New Jersey Transit. These plans are the final item on the list of topics on his agenda for the April 6 discussion. The presentation will be made by planners and architects at Looney Ricks Kiss, a planning firm with offices in Princeton.
Kicking off the four-hour meeting — which is broken down into sessions — is a recap of his February 23 presentation about the area surrounding the Acme shopping center. That will run from noon to 1 p.m.
Following that presentation, Gianni Longo, a visioning specialist on the InterCap team, will give a visual presentation on other places around the world, giving West Windsor residents the opportunity to “vote in real time” on specific elements of each image they would like to see incorporated.
Then Goldin’s traffic experts will present the computerized simulation showing the current traffic conditions on the roadways around the train station compared with what those conditions will be under the as-of-right, and if no redevelopment was done, he said. Directly after this, Goldin’s fiscal impact team will discuss the use of Tax Increment Financing (an idea the township’s redevelopment finance committee recently began researching) to fund the project, followed by the Looney Ricks Kiss presentation.
Goldin spent a total of $293,”000 of his own company’s money on the traffic study in order to comply with township professionals’ recommendations. The township council, in January, decided it would be a cost-saving measure to allow him to do the traffic study, yet have it monitored closely by township professionals in order to ensure all data it needed was collected.
