There has been more progress on the construction of Bridgewater’s new Municipal Complex at the corner of Garretson Road and Commons Way. It seems that for so many years now, the only new public buildings going up in Bridgewater were schools. Meanwhile, township employees continued to be housed in facilities which they have long since outgrown.
Ironically enough, the current Municipal Building was once itself a school. Bridgewater Township took it over from the school district at a time when it was no longer needed and converted it into an all-offices facility. Police, court, and animal shelter personnel continued to be housed in other structures a few hundred yards to the back of the Municipal Administrative Building.
There is always the question of whether public monies should be spent to construct a new, expanded complex to consolidate and house Bridgewater municipal, police and court employees, at a time when the State of New Jersey can’t figure out where its next buck is coming from, and when the Bridgewater-Raritan school budget keeps rising with no end in sight.
Those concerns, however, don’t minimize the long-overdue need for Bridgewater Township officials to finally have resolved this long outstanding need. I’m looking forward to seeing the results. I hope it’s on time and on budget.
Note: See the architect’s web site at http://www.usaarchitects.com/bridgewater/ for a pictorial depiction of the planned facility.
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