Voorhees Planning Board Approves 120 Affordable Apartments on Former Concrete Plant Site
The Voorhees Township Planning Board on October 28 approved The Oaks at Centennial, a $50 million, 120-apartment fully affordable housing community from The Michaels Organization on a former concrete plant site on Centennial Boulevard. The board granted preliminary and final major site plan approvals plus a minor subdivision for two 60-unit phases comprising four residential buildings, a clubhouse, playground and maintenance building. All units will serve low- and moderate-income households. Projected rents are calibrated to 60 percent of area median income: $1,323 for one-bedroom, $1,587 for two-bedroom and $1,834 for three-bedroom apartments. The 6.6-acre site, home to L&L Redi Mix Concrete for 55 years, has been cleared of contamination. The project is part of Voorhees' affordable housing plan, released last year and revised in February, and follows the township's October 14 approval of a 178-unit market-rate conversion of the former Echelon office tower. Together the two approvals add 298 apartments on previously developed land, illustrating how land-constrained New Jersey suburbs are meeting housing needs through industrial and office reuse.