West Windsor Planning Board Approves New Jewish Community Center

The West Windsor Planning Board approved the construction of a New Jewish Community Center on an 82-acre tract off Clarksville Road. The new community center will include offices, a day camp, multiple athletic fields and facilities, a health and fitness center, 270 parking spaces for visitors and members, and all the other amenities of a full-service, non-denominational community facility.

The plan calls for a main 77,000-square-foot building located on the central area of the property, with a smaller 7,000-square-foot building and numerous athletic fields located to the rear. It also includes general-purpose fields and open space for use in future township events.

Before the project can break ground, it still needs to gain approval from the Mercer County Planning Board because Clarksville Road is a county road. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and other county environmental bodies also need to sign off on it because the project site has several pockets of wetlands, and it's near a water way, Duck Pond Run. If all goes as expected, construction is planned to begin in 2008 with the goal of completion in the fall 2009.