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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Rutgers University says Barnes & Noble College Booksellers will run a new 46,000-square-foot superstore that will anchor a development planned just off the campus. The bookstore will replace the university’s existing 19,000-square-foot bookstore.

The store will anchor a $145 million high-rise structure, financed by New Brunswick’s development corporation, that will include office space, stores, condominiums and a parking garage across the street from the New Brunswick railroad station.

Under a 10-year contract, Barnes & Noble will take over management of all the college bookstores on the New Brunswick campus in November.

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Walter Seward was a celebrity on campus and at Rutgers events. He was the oldest living alumnus and Rutgers’ biggest fan! He’s also the third oldest living person in US. Shoot he’s even in wikipedia.

According to Gerontology Research Group’s records, Seward was the world’s 30th-oldest person. Most who live to be that old are women. The current record-holder is an Indiana woman, Edna Parker, who is 115!

Through all the decades, he was an avid booster of Rutgers and its football team, attending all but six homecoming celebrations since his graduation in 1917. He was recently featured on the backcover of the Rutgers magazine that came out just last week.

A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Kirkpatrick Chapel on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick. A viewing is scheduled for Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Preston Funeral Home on South Orange Avenue in West Orange.

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It seems like Route 18 Indoor Market will close it’s doors on November 2nd. The Indoor Market was home to 100- 150 vendors, but as news spread of the expiration of the lease - many bailed and the number has dropped down to 60.

For The Home News:

The Route 18 Indoor Market and Jason’s Furniture, along with Sam’s Club, occupy retail space in the strip mall that lies at the heart of the Golden Triangle redevelopment area. With Toll Brothers plans for housing construction on hold, negotiations for lease extensions were conducted by the businesses.

Toll Brothers’ Golden Triangle plan, approved by the township’s Planning Board last year, calls for 200,000 square feet of retail space to be built in a “transit village” that will also include 402 housing units. The developer, due to sluggish economy, requested that the housing units be constructed in the final phase of the project.

The first phase of the project was the construction of an adjacent parking deck to be followed by two new restaurants facing Route 18. The additional commercial space is slated to follow before the final phase of housing construction commences.

The Township Council amended the timetable for completion of the project, granting the developer’s request to delay housing construction by three years, from 2008 to 2011.

The overall completion of the redevelopment project is scheduled for 2015.

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It’s only been two days of classes at Rutgers and the campus has already been struck with tragedy. 18-year-old, Nicholas Bielik, of Connecticut was struck and killed by a car while crossing Easton Avenue between Hamilton and Mine streets a little past midnight. Police say he was struck by a 1993 Nissan Altima. Bielik, a sophomore, was pronounced dead at 1:52 a.m. at nearby Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.

The driver was not a Rutgers student. The 21-year old volunteered a blood sample - No charges have been filed, and the accident is still being investigated.

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From Home News:
The 31-year-old may have graduated from Highland Park High School in 1995, but every week the Los Angeles actor, teacher and director is back in the classroom as an acting coach in ABC’s reality television program “High School Musical: Get in the Picture,” hosted by Nick Lachey.

“This is by far the biggest, most public thing I’ve done so far,” he said of the show, which airs at 8 p.m. Mondays and will result in one lucky teen starring in a music video during the end credits of this fall’s “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” motion picture.