Plans for two new buildings in Plainsboro’s Village Center — including one to hold medical offices — were unanimously adopted by Plainsboro’s Planning Board on September 21.
When the township’s Village Center was originally approved, it included plans for three buildings that featured commercial uses on the ground level and residential units above. Now Sharbell has submitted plan changes to essentially transform two buildings into one larger medical office building of 30,000 square feet, said Les Varga, the Director of Planning and Zoning. “They were attached in the original plan by two walkways on the second and third floors,” he said. “Now the footprint will essentially look like one building. The third building will remain commercial on the ground floor, and residential on the second and third floors.”
“Whether that 30,000 is totally medical office is up to market conditions,” Varga explained. “It may not be just strictly for doctors and other practitioners.”
However, “there is enough flexibility in the design that in the future, should the decision be made to have commercial on the ground floor, the design would certainly support that, and they would just come back to the board for an amended site plan,” Varga explained.
There other building on site is a 15,000-square-foot building with commercial on the ground floor and residential on the second and third floors. Whether they are condominiums or apartments has yet to be determined.
