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TCNJ construction to bring 250 jobs to county, union president says

Amy Reynolds | August 2, 2014

With steel frames up on the $86 million Campus Town project at The College of New Jersey, the site yesterday was bustling with construction workers working hard to bring to life a new housing-retail complex that just a few months ago was a fenced-off, 12-acre patch of dirt.

At a glance, these workers could be from anywhere. But a good portion of them — 65 percent — are from the greater Mercer County area.

After a rough recession and in a competitive construction industry where jobs often go to the lowest bidder, workers expressed gratitude yesterday that they could participate in a job close to home, and that local leaders had made it possible for them to do so.

“It’s a good living. I’m happy to be here. I’m a Ewing resident for 53 years and I’m just very happy to be here,” construction worker Carl Delmonico said.

At its peak, the private-public project will provide 250 construction jobs to local residents, Wayne DeAngelo, president of Mercer-Burlington Building Trades, said yesterday at a news conference held at the Campus Town site.

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