Robbinsville wants to build a pool on a 16-acre parcel in Town Center South on Route 33.
ROBBINSVILLE -- Mayor Dave Fried on Wednesday laid out future plans for four separate parcels of land in the township, and announced plans to build a pool at one of the locations.
Fried made the announcements at his annual state of the township address, at the Mercer County Boathouse at Mercer County Park in West Windsor.
Details and dollar amounts on the development deals were not disclosed.
Fried said the township has purchased and will preserve 16 acres in Town Center South on Route 33.
On a portion of the parcel, the town hopes to build a community pool through an agreement with the Hamilton Area YMCA, he said.
Nearby on Route 130, the town has entered into a contract to purchase 24 acres commonly known as the "Tammaro property." There, Robbinsville plans to build their second Project Freedom development to house individuals with disabilities, Fried said.
Robbinsville also wants to purchase approximately 200 acres on Robbinsville-Edinburg Road across from Robbinsville High School, as well as the former Miry Run Golf Course on Sharon Road.
Each of those properties would be added to the township's open space registry.
Fried said he plans to put those before the council, and seek voter approval to increase the open space tax on the November ballot to pay for them.
Fried also discussed the proposed 2016 budget, which he announced in March, and features the second tax cut in three years.
For the second straight year, Mayor Fried turned the township address into a fundraiser, with this year's money going to local charity Quilts for Comfort.
It's the township'a way of "paying it forward."
"The feedback we received from last year's event was so overwhelmingly positive we just had to keep the momentum going,'' Mayor Fried said of the 2015 address. That fundraiser tallied over $40,000 in order to secure a wheelchair-accessible van for the Shepherd family of Robbinsville.
"We've been so very fortunate in Robbinsville, and that is why we decided to change how we hosted this event," Fried said. "We wanted to give back."
Donations from Wednesday evening, a joint venture with the MIDJersey Chamber of Commerce and hosted by First Choice Bank Vice President Jeannine Cimino, us expected to top $22,000, Fried said.
Quilts for Comfort is 100 percent volunteer-based and has delivered over 500 quilts to sick and/or recovering patients, Fried said. Blood cancer survivor and Robbinsville mother of three Susan Tonry founded it in 2009.
Robbinsville also donated $500 to each of the 10 nonprofit organizations in the township's Keep it Local program network of charities. The money was generated through the program since 2013.
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