Experience
NDG principals bring deep experience across complex development projects, working with institutional capital, nonprofits, municipalities, and operating developers on high-stakes real estate in New Jersey and beyond.
Regional Focus
Deep experience navigating entitlement and redevelopment frameworks across New Jersey, with additional work in Pennsylvania and New York. Clients benefit from established relationships with municipal boards, redevelopment agencies, and affordable housing compliance structures — primarily New Jersey Planning Boards and Boards of Adjustment.
Representative Projects
Highland Port Development
- Beach Boulevard – 24 luxury townhomes
- Monitor Street – 15 apartments + 2 commercial units
- Johnston & Garabrant – 12 two-family homes
- Manchester Place – 10 three-family + 1 two-family homes
- Ocean Avenue – 14 apartments + 2 commercial units
- 10th Street – mixed-family residential buildings
- Doremus Avenue – truck wash facility
- 22 West Restaurant – commercial build-out
Outcome: Execution of 100+ residential units plus mixed-use and industrial projects.
Brand New Day / City of Elizabeth – NSP1
Authored HUD Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP1) grant.
Outcome: Scattered-site acquisition and rehabilitation including 217–219 First Street (18 units).
La Casa de Don Pedro – Newark
- Roseville Homes – HOME-funded affordable homeownership
- First Street Townhomes – HOME-funded
- Broadway Mixed-Use Project – NMTC
Outcome: Delivery and advancement of affordable and mixed-use housing.
Bell Works / Alcatel-Lucent Redevelopment – Holmdel
Authored redevelopment plan enabling reuse of 2M SF Bell Labs complex.
Outcome: Bell Works mixed-use campus, 225 residential units, $5M+ community contribution.
Midtown Elizabeth Redevelopment – First Street
Authored Midtown Redevelopment Plan; secured approvals for 350 residential units.
Outcome: Executed via Redevelopment Agreement (RDA) and PILOT.
Kearny Waterfront Redevelopment
Outcome: Waterfront redevelopment framework enabling later construction including 136-unit Bridgeview townhomes.
One Earth Planning & Development
- Orange TOD apartment – 50–60 units (underwriting)
- Orange multifamily rehab – 60 units (CM)
- Scattered-site portfolio – 20 units (Lambertville, West Amwell, Pennington)
HANDS – Orange Arts Village
- 12-unit multifamily building
- 4-unit mixed-use building with restaurant
East Greenwich Township – Affordable Housing Planning
Prepared Housing Element & Fair Share Plan and redevelopment plan.
Outcome: 100-unit municipally sponsored affordable housing project.
The Alice – Princeton
Consulted for Sordoni Construction and Winn Development.
Outcome: $1.7M construction cost reduction through value engineering of framing, windows, and envelope systems.