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Plainsboro

The new Plainsboro Village Center that broke ground in 2001 as that township's community hub, should see its first tenant - a First Constitution Bank - open for business early this year, Plainsboro Community Development Director Ernie Freeman said.

Washington Township-based Sharbell Development Corp., the developer of the 16-acre mixed-use project at the corner of Schalks Crossing and Scudders Mill roads, has signed up some commercial tenants and is seeking others to occupy the center's 45,000 square feet of retail space and its 38,000 square feet of office space, Freeman said.

"This space is going to get filled in. I don't think there's any doubt about that," Freeman said.
The anticipated tenants include a New England Soup Factory restaurant, a Cold Stone Creamery ice cream shop, a dental office and a cosmetics shop, Freeman said.

Among other businesses Sharbell is looking to draw to the center are an Italian deli, an Italian restaurant, an Asian-fusion restaurant, an eyeglass store, a children's hair salon, a pharmacy, a small book store, a jeweler and an apparel shop, Freeman said.

He projected that perhaps 15 to 20 retailers will set up shop in Plainsboro Village Center once its space is fully leased.

The center also will host the township's proposed 34,000-square-foot new library, which will cost an estimated $8.5 million but likely won't be under construction before 2007.

In addition, it will be home to about 25 new residences - including five single-family homes, 12 town houses and eight apartments - that Sharbell is building as part of the Village Center.

In part, the center is designed to complement 24 single-family homes and five town houses that Sharbell built as its nearby Plainsboro Village residential neighborhood.

- Robert Stern