116 Low-Income Units Approved For South Brunswick Twp.

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — A developer is seeking to build a two-phase housing project on Henderson Road, near the existing Royal Oaks apartment complex, a spokesman for South Brunswick Township confirmed to Patch.

Phase one would be a 116-unit low-income apartment complex. The second phase remains undetermined, but it would most likely be single-family housing at market rate prices.

Both projects would be located on a 10-acre piece of land at 211 Henderson Road, near Black Horse Lane. That lot is currently all woods.

The developer is RPM Development. RPM appeared before the South Brunswick Planning Board in 2019, and the Planning Board approved their application. South Brunswick had to rezone the property in order for RPM to be allowed to build there.

All 116 units would be affordable units, and RPM was already given a tax credit by the Murphy administration to build the low-income housing. The state of New Jersey regularly encourages developers to build low-income and senior housing by giving developers tax breaks. Gov. Murphy's administration said they chose to give the tax breaks to RPM in South Brunswick in part because of the town's good school system.

The first thing that will be built is the 116 apartments. It remains unknown when construction will begin.