Cottrell Farm Park Improvements in Old Bridge, NJ
Old Bridge, New Jersey is a township that is about 15 miles southwest of downtown New York City. Located within Middlesex County, it is part of the New York metropolitan area and the Raritan Valley region.
The township had a population of 66,876 at the 2020 census. Old Bridge sits on the edge of Raritan Bay across from Staten Island in New York. It is known as a bedroom suburb of New York where people commute to work by taking the Governor Alfred E. Driscoll Bridge or the Victory Bridge.
U.S. Route 9, Garden State Parkway, State Route 18, 34, and 35 all go through Old Bridge.
Old Bridge has many parks and attractions including the John A. Phillips Open Space Preserve, Cheesequake State Park, Monmouth Battlefield State Park, Thompson Park, Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, Hooks Creek Lake, Old Bridge Waterfront Park, Raritan Bay Beach, Raritan Marina, Dav and Duke’s Beach, and Old Bridge Golf Course.
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The Cottrell Farm homestead is a historic landmark built in 1831 and still stands today. Located in Old Bridge, the farm was a 150-acre apple orchard owned by the Cottrell family. The family created the New Jersey Apple Growers Inc. The property includes a distillery, where they press apples for cider, instead of throwing out unusable apples. They sell cider under the Browntown name.
The farm is being utilized as passive recreation with many buildings on site, including a home, barn, stone garage, CMU shop garage, and pool cottage. All buildings are rentable for event space. The farm also has walking trails and large open spaces to go along with a Phase 2 of improvements.
French & Parrello Associates is a long time, repeat project driver from Romtec and a key contributor to our growth in New Jersey. We worked with French & Parrello on the Essex County College West Campus, Turtleback Zoo, Calais Road Community Park, amongst other projects.
Old Bridge Township is a first-time owner of a Romtec restroom that manages Cottrell Farm Park. Middlesex County owns Cottrell Farm Park.
French & Parrello Associates contacted Romtec to produce the bid drawings and specifications for a custom multi-user restroom with family restrooms and splash pad equipment room.
This project is for Phase 2 of the Cottrell Farm Park Improvements and includes the addition of a children’s playground area, splash pad, restrooms, and picnic area. The project was put out to public bid, and Precise Construction was the successful bidder who built the structure for Old Bridge Township.
The Romtec restroom building features multiuser restrooms, a family room, a mechanical room, and a splash pad equipment room. The restroom and splash pad building has an architectural composition roof, fiber cement board and batten siding over CMU concrete block wall, stone veneer, and resawn timber truss & columns overhanging to come together and make an attractive structure that fits within the farm’s surroundings.
Old Bridge Township has been great to work with and is very happy with the Romtec restroom at Cottrell Farm Park in Old Bridge, New Jersey.
French & Parrello Associates is an engineering consultant who provides a variety of services to customers and industries all around the New Jersey area as they are based in the Wall Township.
As part of the Phase 2 park improvements, this restroom building also provides space for the splash pad equipment. The Phase 2 improvements also include the addition of a playground, picnic area, and splash pad that will make the Cottrell Farm Park more attractive for the community to use and enjoy.
This unique park, where history is preserved in Old Bridge, is paying homage to its past while updating certain parts to make it a great asset to the township and New Jersey community for future generations.
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