A 12-story assisted living facility could soon be coming to the site of the Parker at Landing nursing home at the corner of Easton Avenue and Landing Lane in New Brunswick.
At a recent monthly meeting of the New Brunswick planning board, officials voted unanimously to approve a redevelopment plan for the 2.3-acre site at 501 Easton Avenue, which has been in operation since 1907. Officials said that the project would triple the capacity of the existing structure, while also noting that a final site plan must be approved by city officials and by the New Jersey Department of Health.
Parker Health Group, the owner of the site and four other assisted living communities in Middlesex County, submitted a memo in support of the redevelopment plan, which was approved by the planning board in mid-August. That approval came less than a month after the New Brunswick City Council voted to adopt the same redevelopment plan for the site.
A report in TAPinto New Brunswick said that the proposed facility would allow Parker Health to expand its care at the facility to include additional types of senior housing, assisted living and independent living.
A summary from the Parker Health Group website says that the assisted living group has been in operation at that facility since Henrietta Parker established the Francis E. Parker Memorial Home in honor of her husband, who contracted a chronic illness in 1903 and passed away two years later. The organization continued to operate and expand and in 1954, it was granted its first license as a non-profit nursing home from the state.
The assisted living group has since expanded to Highland Park, Somerset, Monroe Township and Piscataway.
Parker’s latest expansion wrapped up three years ago, when the Parker at Somerset complex, previously known as the McCarrick Care Center, was officially reopened after a three-year redevelopment project that began in 2019. Officials from the New Brunswick planning board lauded that project during the meeting in August and said they hoped the project on Easton Avenue would be just as transformative for the neighborhood.
Parker Health Group did not respond to a request for comment from Jersey Digs.
