The Kenvue site

The former Kenvue campus at 199 Grandview Road

The 382.771-acre campus sold for $23.5 million in December 2025 to four LLCs, with E. Kahn Development as their representative. Kenvue leaves by the end of 2026. An industrial site plan was declared complete in June 2026 and has not been scheduled.

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What happens next

Kenvue is expected to cease operations at the site by December 31, 2026. The industrial site plan has not been scheduled for a Planning Board hearing.

The holding is Block 14001, Lot 2 and Block 13001, Lot 15; its Limited Manufacturing core is about 257 acres. The deed, recorded December 30, 2025, conveys it for $23.5 million to four LLCs as tenants in common. E. Kahn Development is not on the deed; the township treats it as the owners’ representative.

Light manufacturing is what the current zoning allows by right. E. Kahn’s complaint dates an industrial site plan application to April 15, 2026 and says it was declared administratively complete on June 9, 2026. The township attorney said on September 17 that Kenvue will cease operations at the site by the end of 2026.

The full story, lot by lot, is on the Kenvue site page.

The site, lot by lot

Timeline

Each dated event on this issue, oldest first, linked to the full sourced entry.

  1. Milestone Kenvue winds down Skillman as it moves to SummitKenvue, the consumer-health company spun out of Johnson & Johnson, disclosed in a 2023 SEC filing that it would move its headquarters from Skillman to Summit; through 2024 it wound the Skillman campus down — 51 layoffs filed under the WARN Act in February 2024 — putting the future of the former J&J campus at 199 Grandview Road in play for the first time in decades.
  2. Milestone Planning Board opens the Fourth Round hearing — 417 units on the Kenvue siteThe Planning Board opened its public hearing on the Fourth Round Housing Element and Fair Share Plan, whose two inclusionary sites Headline News Montgomery totalled at 597 units, and which put 417 of them, 70 affordable, on the former Kenvue campus. The meeting ran about three hours — roughly the first half-hour a presentation, the rest questions, never reaching public comment — and the hearing was carried to June 26.
  3. Milestone Residents take the Kenvue plan to the Township CommitteeNothing about the Kenvue site was on the Township Committee's agenda, but roughly 80 minutes of a two-hour meeting went to public comment about it. Officials corrected the unit numbers, explained why Montgomery had not challenged its state obligation, and promised town halls in August.
  4. Milestone E. Kahn lays out its concepts for 199 Grandview RoadWith no formal application before the board, no township professionals to review it and no board opinion on the merits, the campus's contract purchaser laid out for the Planning Board the concepts it had been showing township staff since August 2024 — a by-right industrial build-out, a mixed-use plan, an all-residential concept, and the 417-unit plan the township had adopted.
  5. Milestone E. Kahn files a general development plan for light industrial useThe developer filed a general development plan for an industrial build-out of the campus. The Planning Board declined to hear it, on advice that Montgomery has no ordinance authorizing general development plan review — a refusal the developer then took to court.
  6. Milestone The Committee announces a Pike Run agreement: the Kenvue site will come out of the housing planMayor Singh read a statement on behalf of the Township Committee: the township had "reached an agreement with the owner of Pike Run" to extend affordability controls, and "as a result of this agreement, the Kenvue site will no longer be included in or required for the Township's affordable housing plan." The statement did not say what the township gave in return.
  7. Milestone The township says the Kenvue site is coming out of the housing planIn an affordable housing update moved to the top of the agenda, the township attorney said Montgomery had notified the court program it would amend its plan, and that with the Pike Run extensions no other development would remain in it — naming the Kenvue site and Thrive. 23 Orchard Road came out too, though she did not name it that night. The Committee then adopted the $1.1 million bond ordinance.
  8. Milestone The sale closes: $23.5 million, to four LLCsJohnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. and Kenvue Brands LLC deeded the campus to four New Jersey limited liability companies for $23,500,000, in a deed recorded December 30, 2025 with Somerset County. A mortgage to Wilmington Savings Fund Society was recorded the same day. E. Kahn Development Corp. is not named as a party in the clerk's index; the township treats it as the owners' representative.
  9. Pending E. Kahn files a site plan for an industrial project at the campusWith the site out of the housing plan, the owner filed an ordinary site plan application under the property's existing zoning. E. Kahn's own complaint dates the filing to April 15, 2026 and says the application was declared administratively complete on June 9; the township's records confirm the application exists and conforms to the LM zone, but do not carry those dates.
  10. Pending The industrial site plan is declared administratively completePatch reported that on June 9, 2026 the township declared E. Kahn's site plan application administratively complete, starting the statutory clock for a Planning Board hearing. The company's lawyer confirmed on the record nine days later that the application was deemed complete. More than three months later it still had no hearing date.
  11. Pending Kenvue is due to cease operations at the siteThe township attorney told the Township Committee on September 17, 2026 that Kenvue will cease operations at 199 Grandview Road by the end of the year; Mayor Neena Singh said the township expects a resulting gap of roughly $1.4 million a year in tax revenue, with the owners' appeal of the Lot 2 assessment already pending in the Tax Court.

Explainers

Documents

The township's own records on this issue. Each links to the official copy.

Meetings

  • Planning Board — September 8, 2025

    The developer of the former Kenvue campus laid out, in public for the first time, the full set of concepts it had shown township staff since August 2024 — a by-right industrial build-out, a mixed-use plan, an all-residential plan and the 417-unit plan the township put in its Fourth Round housing plan — with its own traffic, tax and impervious-coverage numbers. No application was before the board and no vote was taken on the site.

  • Township Committee — July 17, 2025

    The first regular Township Committee meeting after the Fourth Round housing plan was adopted. Nothing about the Kenvue site was on the agenda, yet roughly 80 minutes of public comment was about it — the headquarters building slated for demolition, which speakers that night attributed to Henry N. Cobb and W. Steven Wood of I.M. Pei & Partners against the plan's finding of no architecturally important buildings on the site; Grandview Road traffic, flooding, and repeated demands for an alternative site. Officials corrected the unit numbers, explained why the township did not challenge its state obligation, and promised August town halls.

  • Planning Board — June 23, 2025

    The public hearing on the 2025 Fourth Round Housing Element and Fair Share Plan — the plan that put 417 residential units, 70 of them affordable, on the former Kenvue campus at 199 Grandview Road. The meeting ran about three hours in all — roughly the first half-hour the planner's presentation, the rest questions — and never reached the formal public-comment period; the board took no vote and carried the hearing to Thursday, June 26.

Sources for this overview

  1. Township Committee video, September 17, 2026
  2. E. Kahn Development Corp. v. Township of Montgomery, complaint (SOM-L-001072-26)
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