Original Foxmoor Owner

The Foxmoor Development in Washington Twp., Mercer County, New Jersey (there are several Washinton Townships in New Jersey) has come to grow over the past 22 years to now be known as the Washington Town Center.

I had the distinction to be the "Original Owner" in the Foxmoor Development. The townhouse was purchased off of a blue print in a trailer back in 1985 when my son was 6 months old. At that time, there was nothing but potato fields, a few stores, and the Robbinsville Inn.

When we first moved into our townhouse I questioned the gentlemen that did the walk thru about the neighbors, there were none. As the weeks and months went by people began to move in, the development started to come to life. It became a community.

The builder at the time was Carteret Realty. I must have pestered them so much about this, that and the other that they offered me a position. I worked for the builder for over 6 years. During that time the Shopping Center was built, and the development took shape, phase by phase. The Project Manager took myself and my co-workers out to the site to learn about the building process from the ground up. I have the layout of the models etched in my mind and can look at the outside and tell if a unit was moderate income.

Foxmoor was not always looked upon fondly by the Township, at one point one of the Council persons referred to the development as a "slum". This caused an uproar in the community and all of the residents went to the Township meeting. The mayor and others present were talking about a "Town Center", it was an abstract plan. The township municipal building did not look the way it does today and the meeting was like something out of the Bob Newhart Show.

Time marches on and the community has grown into the Town Center. I have moved on and no longer live there. I have the pleasure of doing business in there with resales. Of course, my two sons love to drive thru Foxmoor and go by their old house, they are amazed at how the area looks today. I joke and tell them maybe on day they would like to buy their townhouse back.

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