The Kenvue site
The Kenvue redevelopment study
The Township Committee has directed the Planning Board to study whether Block 14001, Lot 2 at 199 Grandview Road qualifies as a non-condemnation area in need of redevelopment, at the owner's request and paid for by the owner's escrow. No hearing has been noticed.
Study under way
What happens next
The study report must be made public and given a noticed Planning Board hearing before the Board recommends anything. The Board next meets November 9, 2026; no hearing date has been set.
On September 17, 2026 the Township Committee adopted Resolution #26-9-260, directing the Planning Board to investigate whether Block 14001, Lot 2 meets the statutory criteria for a non-condemnation redevelopment area, and Resolution #26-9-261, an escrow under which E. Kahn Development funds the study. Both passed 4-0 with Committeeman Martin absent. The resolution names Clarke Caton Hintz, the Board’s regular planner, to prepare the report.
The study covers only Lot 2, not the whole campus, and a non-condemnation designation carries no eminent-domain power. Asked from the floor whose idea it was, the answer from the dais was that it was the developer’s request.
The Planning Board took it up on September 28, when its attorney described the steps: a report, made public, then a noticed hearing, then a recommendation to the Committee, which decides. It was not discussed on October 12.
Timeline
- Active Committee orders a redevelopment study of the Kenvue siteThe Township Committee adopted Resolutions #26-9-260 and #26-9-261 by 4-0, with Committeeman Mike Martin absent, directing the Planning Board to investigate whether Block 14001, Lot 2 at 199 Grandview Road meets the criteria for designation as a non-condemnation redevelopment area, and funding that study through an escrow agreement with E. Kahn Development Corp.
- Active The Planning Board takes up the Kenvue study — no planner named, no dates setAt its first meeting after the Committee's referral, the Planning Board heard from its attorney that the Grandview Road study report, once finished, will be made public and given a noticed hearing before the Board recommends anything. No planner was named for the study and no dates were set. The professional appointment on the same agenda was for 23 Orchard Road, not the Kenvue site.