A proposal for a refrigerated warehouse on Wilson Avenue and Ball Street has been approved by the Newark Zoning Board of Adjustment.
The building will be 160 feet high and span 156,000 square feet. It will replace part of the existing Garden State Cold Storage site on portions of Ball and Wilson Streets. It will have 3,200 square feet of reception space on the ground floor, 28,000 square feet for mechanical and utility rooms and a loading dock, and 124,000 square feet of refrigerated warehouse space. The warehouse that is currently on the site and Ryder Truck Rental will remain open.
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The engineer and architect of the project, Bahman Zadmehr of by Ruggiero Properties LLC, said that it is essentially an expansion of the current use of the site. He added that the proposal is to demolish over half of the building on the site to facilitate access to the proposed warehouse. The building will be 64 taller than is permitted by the zoning regulations and so requires a variance.
Rocco Ruggiero, owner of the property and has operated in Newark for close to 50 years, said that automation requires this type of vertical design. He added that without this height, the building would have needed to be 240,000 square feet larger int order to reach the same storage capacity.
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