My Central Jersey / mycentraljersey.com
The mayor’s comments came after Advance’s experts gave what Hayes called an “incredibly sobering” picture of the condition of the campus built in the 1960s to house the headquarters of American Hoechst and the state of the office rental market in Somerset County. While Advance’s planner, Richard Coppola, said most of the buildings on the 160-acre campus were “functionally obsolete,” real estate expert Jeffrey Otteau said such corporate campuses are no longer viable.
