A partnership among the city, the New Brunswick Development Corp., the New Brunswick Parking Authority and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the 625,000-square-foot project would occupy a 1.6-acre site between Joyce Kilmer Avenue and an extended Kirkpatrick Street adjacent to the Ferren Mall on French Street. Cahill said the project would be located within the city's transit village zone and would offer walkway access to the nearby train station, published reports say.

The hospital would run the health facility, to be known as the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Fitness and Wellness Center. The first floor would include a 45,000-square-foot grocery store, a footprint that Cahill reportedly said "will allow this supermarket to offer a wider variety of food choices than the 15,000- to 25,000-square-foot size typically found in urban areas." A spokesman for Cahill was unable to provide GlobeSt.com with a copy of the mayor's prepared speech by deadline.

Also on the first floor of the facility would be an aquatic center, featuring a competition-sized swimming pool and two smaller therapeutic pools that could be used for exercise classes or hospital physical therapy sessions. The main pool would also be made available free of charge to the city's public schools for swimming lessons during physical education classes. The remainder of the facility would occupy the 12-story project's second floor and offer exercise equipment and classes, occupational and physical therapy, community health education classes and lectures and meeting space for use by community groups, according to the New Brunswick Home News Tribune.