Roebling Steel spun the wire cables that suspend the Golden Gate and Brooklyn bridges. But over decades the factories failed and finally closed. Now the site is an overgrown ruins in the northwest corner of Trenton’s iconic Chambersburg section. That could soon change.
A brownfield site — derelict, industrial, environmentally challenged — it’s one of the few major multi-acre sites left for redevelopment in Trenton and the city is soliciting proposals for its redevelopment. New Jersey is offering loans and grants through a new Economic Development Authority program to help attract investors to rescue and renovate such brownfield sites statewide.
