GlobeSt.com UPDATE: $500M Town Center Project Gets Preliminary Approval

JACKSON TWP., NJ-This township’s board of adjustment has given preliminary approval for Jackson Commons, a 2.9-million-sf mixed-use project carrying an estimated price tag in the range of $500 million. As reported previously by GlobeSt.com, the developer is composer Mitch Leigh, who’s best known for the score of “Man of LaMancha.”

What Leigh has in mind for the site is close to 2.9 million sf commercial space, combining mostly office and retail space. A 240-key, 67,000-sf hotel is also proposed for the project, which is located near the Six Flags-Great Adventure them park.

Jackson Commons is actually a scaled-back version of an earlier proposal that would have covered the entire 1,000-acre property owned by the composer. That earlier proposal carried a price tag of more than $800 million and would have included more than 5,000 homes.