Commercial Real Estate: Buildings Sold, Leases Signed

Quakerbridge Shoppes Sold Commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap announced on January 30 the sale of Quakerbridge Shoppes for $8,336,000. The identities of the seller and buyer were not disclosed. The 42,912-square-foot multi-tenant retail center is located on just over 5 acres at 3800 Quakerbridge Road in Hamilton Township. The center’s 18 tenants include […]

Nonprofit News: Board Moves

Housing Initiatives of Princeton, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton 08540. Lori Trolio, executive director. housinginitiativesofprinceton.org. Housing Initiatives of Princeton (HIP), which provides transitional housing and eviction prevention services in Central New Jersey, has added three Princeton residents to its 15-member board. Suki Wasserman is a corporate market research professional, who has worked with Procter & Gamble, […]

NJ Black Heritage Trail Announces Nomination Cycle

The New Jersey Department of State invites all New Jerseyans to join the state in celebrating Black history. Signed into law by Governor Murphy on September 7, 2022, the New Jersey Black Heritage Trail legislation calls for the New Jersey Historical Commission to establish a Black Heritage Trail that will “highlight Black heritage sites through […]

Gathering Ground Hosts a Call to Collaboration

Gathering Ground, a New Jersey-based organization with a mission of creating an equitable and just society, hosts its signature event, a Call to Collaboration, on Wednesday and Thursday, February 12 and 13, at The College of New Jersey at 2000 Pennington Road in Ewing. The Call to Collaboration is not your typical conference. First off, […]

Corrections & Labor Departments Host Virtual Career Fairs

The New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) is partnering with the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) to co-host a series of virtual career fairs during the month of February for individuals considering a career in New Jersey law enforcement. The departments will provide participants with details about the application process, qualifications, […]

Opportunities: Poetry, Service, Dance, and Beyond

Call for Poetry The US1 Worksheets poetry anthology — no relation to U.S. 1 Newspaper — is accepting submissions for this year’s publication through Tuesday, February 28. Poems must be e-mailed to Route1poets@gmail.com and follow the guidelines below in order to be considered. 1. In the subject line of your submission, write SUBMISSION–LAST NAME. 2. […]

Go Inside This Week’s Issue of U.S. 1: February 5, 2025

The following stories were originally published in the February 5, 2025, issue of U.S. 1 Newspaper. Cover Stories Drawn to a Life of Service, Flynn Comes to TASK Between the Lines Opportunities: Poetry, Service, Dance, and Beyond Life in the Fast Lane I Am Trenton Awards GrantsCommercial Real Estate: Buildings Sold, Leases SignedNonprofit News: Board […]

A Biologist’s Life of Science, Adventure, and Curiosity

Evolutionary biologists B. Rosemary and Peter Grant, both 88, live around the corner and regularly walk past our house, always engaged in animated conversation. I had learned about their work in a New York Times article a decade ago and, contrary to much that I read, the fascination of that article remained with me. And […]

At Starving Artist Café, Affordable Never Sounded So Good

With a supportive landlord and his own culinary gifts and good musical instincts, Todd Ellis is helping in his own way to make Stockton the affordable lunch and dinner town it once was. Ellis opened the Starving Artist Café last winter at 18 Bridge Street. Ellis and his crew of food business veterans serve up […]

McCarter Theater Review: ‘Here There Are Blueberries’

Historian Hannah Arendt coined the phrase, “the banality of evil.” Among ways she illustrated it was the workmanlike way Third Reich leaders went about their business, even if it was to devise, perfect, and execute ways to kill millions of fellow humans as political policy. The catalyst for Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich’s thought-provoking “Here […]