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A two-phase ground-up strip retail development totaling 35,000 SF along the Route 27 corridor in South Brunswick — one of Middlesex County's most active retail corridors. We built it from the steel up and handled development, construction, leasing, and stabilization entirely in-house.

Today the center is fully leased to a durable, service- and food-anchored tenant mix — including Chaska, Char by Riya, House of Eyes, Genie Academy, Gyro King, Les Délices, and Bikaner — exactly the internet-proof, everyday-demand businesses we build our portfolio around.

The Phase 2 pad site re-leasing during COVID-19 is one of our most instructive deals. Read the case study →

Modern Mexican Kitchen & Tequila Bar

Brunswick Properties served as general contractor for the full buildout of the New Jersey–based El Toro Loco chain of casual sit-down restaurants and bars. From 2017 through 2018, we built out 18,000 SF across three locations — Kendall Park, South Plainfield, and Bloomfield.

The South Plainfield and Bloomfield restaurants were second-generation spaces requiring full remodels — flooring, ceilings, walls, surfaces, decor, and low-voltage systems. The Kendall Park location was designed and built from a raw shell, including the kitchen, ventilation and exhaust, fire-suppression systems, a 1,000 SF covered outdoor steel patio structure, and a lofted 700 SF mezzanine.

We worked closely with the owners on design and implementation — handling everything from architectural and engineering design, to procuring custom flooring, furniture, and light fixtures from overseas, to installing POS terminals and high-fidelity, club-grade AV and lighting. Where a typical general contractor simply builds to spec, we draw on deep retail and hospitality experience to help clients build the spec itself around a customer-centric approach.

A comprehensive 32,000 SF exterior facelift and repositioning of an established neighborhood strip center in Hackettstown, NJ. We gave the 40-year-old center a fully modern, refreshed look — new exterior stucco and Hardie plank siding, refreshed black window and trim accents, updated signage, and full parking-lot sealcoating and restriping.

A prime example of our value-add thesis: take a well-located but dated asset, restore it to market-competitive condition, and command market rents without the cost or complexity of ground-up construction. The center is fully occupied post-renovation.

A complete modernization of Finnegans Plaza, paired with the construction of a brand-new 6,000 SF second floor of office space above the existing retail. We handled all design and construction in-house — turning a dated single-story strip into a modern two-story mixed-use center.

The project added $1.2M in appraised value against an $800,000 all-in cost — created in just 12 months. A textbook value-add: build the square footage and the quality the market will pay for, then let the appraisal and the rent roll follow.

Part of the same parcel that anchors Finnegans Plaza in North Brunswick. Our team completed a minor subdivision and secured municipal approval for a 40,000 SF retail development on the subdivided lot — a pure entitlement value-creation play.

With approvals in hand, the entitled parcel was sold to a local investor in 2010. This deal illustrates our ability to unlock latent land value through the entitlement process — creating a fully de-risked, shovel-ready asset for a buyer without ever turning a shovel ourselves.

A large-scale mixed-use residential development in Piscataway comprising 200 multifamily units and 39 single-family homes, including 40 affordable units. All entitlements and municipal approvals are fully in place as of 2025 — a significant milestone representing years of navigation through New Jersey's complex planning and approval process.

With full entitlement secured in-house, 1700 Washington is positioned for construction commencement. The project reflects our expanding platform beyond commercial retail into residential development — applying the same vertically integrated approach, and positioning us directly in the path of New Jersey's mandated housing growth.

A 66-acre land development opportunity in Robbinsville, New Jersey — one of Mercer County's fastest-growing and most desirable municipalities. This significant land position provides substantial optionality for commercial, residential, or mixed-use development depending on entitlement outcomes.

Our team is actively working through the planning, zoning, and subdivision process to unlock the full development potential of this holding.

Brunswick Properties acquired a 3-acre commercially zoned parcel in North Brunswick and successfully navigated a full rezoning to residential — a complex, multi-step municipal process that most operators would not attempt. Following rezoning, we secured subdivision approval for four single-family home lots and commenced construction.

As of 2026, two custom single-family homes have been built and sold. Two more are in progress. While this project sits outside our core strip retail niche, it is a deliberate demonstration of the same capabilities that drive everything we do: entitlement expertise, in-house construction management, and the ability to create value across asset classes where others see barriers.

In 2021, Brunswick Properties acquired a 4-acre light industrial parcel at 490 Elizabeth Avenue in Somerset, NJ — a strategically located site in central New Jersey, at the intersection of surging post-COVID logistics demand and severely constrained industrial supply.

Our team navigated the full entitlement process and secured approval for a 50,000 SF warehouse development. The timing was deliberate: the transaction was identified, entitled, and executed during the height of the post-COVID warehouse boom — a window when industrial land in central NJ commanded significant premiums from owner-users who needed purpose-built space and couldn't wait for a developer to build it speculatively.

With entitlements fully in hand, the site was sold to a large fragrance distributor. Not a single shovel hit the ground on our watch.

When the Express Inn motel on State Route 34 in Wall Township discovered failures in their on-site septic system, the township issued a mandate: connect to central sewer utility. The problem — the nearest sewer connection was located 750 feet away, on the opposite side of Route 34, a four-lane state highway with no existing utility crossing at the required location.

Brunswick Properties was engaged to design and deliver a complete solution. The project required boring an underground tunnel beneath Route 34, spanning the full width of the highway without disrupting traffic, and trenching approximately 750 feet of new PVC sewer line from the motel's site to the nearest accessible manhole on Bowman Avenue. The motel site required significant ground excavation to accommodate the tunnel boring equipment at depth.

This project is a demonstration of Brunswick Properties' civil engineering and construction management capabilities that extend well beyond real estate. The same in-house platform that navigates municipal zoning boards and manages construction on commercial buildings is equally capable of delivering complex underground infrastructure under live state highway conditions.