The old GM plant in Ewing, N.J., once churned out planes during World War II. But after closing in 1998, the factory sat vacant for years. Now it's being transformed into a large mixed used development that will serve as a town center for the sprawling suburb of Ewing Township.
Long a center for manufacturing and heavy industry, New Jersey has no shortage of industrial sites that have seen better days. But thanks to the state’s two-decade-old brownfields initiative, some are now being transformed, like the old factory in Ewing, into ambitious, mixed-used projects.