Former Union Carbide Site Transformed into New Logistics Center
The project at 100 Ridge Road was a former Union Carbide operated site for nearly 80 years and employed thousands of employees at its pinnacle.
PISCATAWAY, NJ—Local government officials and tenants joined the Rockefeller Group earlier this week at the official opening of its 2.1-million-square-foot Rockefeller Group Logistics Center development here on a former brownfield site.
The project at 100 Ridge Road was a former Union Carbide operated site for nearly 80 years and employed thousands of employees at its pinnacle. With five buildings totaling 2.1 million square feet, the area has been transformed into a productive asset contributing locally and statewide in the form of ratables and the anticipated creation of more than 1,500 permanent jobs.
“Today is a celebration of four years of collaboration between Piscataway, Middlesex County, the companies that have chosen to invest here and to become a part of this project, and all of our neighbors,” said Mark Shearer, senior vice president and regional development officer for Rockefeller Group’s New Jersey/Pennsylvania region. “This former brownfield site was considered a pioneering location, but we saw it as an opportunity to create new product in an older, overlooked market.”
Current tenants at the Rockefeller Group Logistics Center include Best Buy, Fujitsu General, Humanscale, KISS Products, SHI and Kuehne + Nagel.
“One of the biggest challenges facing mayors across the country is how to return deserted business areas to productive economic use,” said Piscataway Mayor Brian C. Wahler. “I can’t say enough about everyone who helped bring this project to fruition and thank Rockefeller Group for taking a creative approach to cleaning up this site, creating new jobs for our residents, and providing the revenue to build our community center.”
In August, Rockefeller Group announced it had begun construction on Rockefeller Group 10Edison, a 900,022-square-foot speculative distribution center in Edison, NJ. The distribution center will be located on 56 acres off Route 27 in Edison at a former ExxonMobil research lab and synthetics oil facility that operated from 1949-2016.