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Carriage Park fits latest trend for active-adult housing. (Community Showcase).


The latest trend in age-restricted housing will be introduced to the upscale Princeton suburb of Lawrenceville, N.J., when NAA NAA

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 member Kushner Companies launches Carriage Park, a luxury community for active adults ages 55 and over. Now in the final stages of approval, Carriage Park will combine carefree apartment living with abundant lifestyle amenities.

Westminster Communities, the construction arm of Kushner Companies, will develop Carriage Park.

The community will include 210 apartment homes with private balconies in two, four-story buildings, each with elevators. Individual units will range from 800 to 1,500 square feet, and most will have two bedrooms.

Kushner Companies and Westminster Communities expect to break ground at Carriage Park this fall, with occupancy slated for spring 2003.

Showcased by attractive brick facades, the buildings will sit on 12 park-like acres that include abundant walking paths, sitting areas and gazebos.

As a central component of its high-quality lifestyle, Carriage Park will feature a community clubhouse with a fitness center, card and hobby A hobby is a spare-time recreational pursuit. Origin of term
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 rooms, and an all-purpose meeting area.

Outside, the facility will include a patio patio

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 and pool, shuffleboard shuffleboard, sport in which players use cue sticks to push disks onto a scoring diagram at either end of a concrete or terrazzo court. The court is 52 ft (15.85 m) long and 6 ft (1.83 m) wide. The bases of the triangular scoring diagrams are parallel to and 8 ft (2.  and bocci courts and community gardens.

Kushner is also set to move on the construction of a community in East Brunswick, N.J., in Middlesex County For the traditional county of England, see Middlesex.

For other uses, see Middlesex (disambiguation).

Middlesex County is the name of six counties in North America:
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  • Middlesex County, Ontario
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