It's being hailed as the largest mixed-used development site in New Jersey history and one of the state's largest brownfield remediation projects, but what impact will a $2.5 billion redevelopment plan have on Sayreville?

Community members on Tuesday got their first chance to ask questions about a 418-acre project along the Raritan River announced last fall. They raised concerns about traffic, potential school overcrowding and a sewerage smell on the waterfront.

Most of those details are yet to be hammered out, representatives from the developer told about 200 residents at the standing-room only forum, but plans for the "Riverton" project are chugging along.

Here are eight new facts the developer, North American Properties, revealed:

1. The project is meant to create a "main street" or a city within a city of sorts, made up of residential, retail, entertainment, marina, office and hotel space along a two-mile tract of the Raritan River.

2. NAP plans to erect Riverton in five or six phases over the course of 10 to 12 years, with the first two phases slated to be the biggest.

3. The development will include 2,000 residential units, some of which will be rented and others of which will be owner-occupied. Although NAP representatives said they did not know for sure what the impact would be on Sayreville's schools, they said their previous, similar projects have overwhelmingly attracted childless millennials and empty nesters.

4. Bass Pro Shop, a huge hunting, fishing and boating store with 82 locations in North America, will be an anchor of the project.

5. Ten restaurants ranging from an Irish pub to a white tablecloth restaurant are expected to open in the development.

6. Riverton is intended to serve residents who live inside a 30- to 40-mile diameter circle surrounding Sayreville. Roughly 1.3 million people, with an average household income of more than $100,000, live within a 20-minute drive from where the project is supposed to rise.

7. NAP hopes to break ground on Riverton this year, although they are still in talks with the Sayreville Economic Redevelopment Authority and need green lights from the planning board and the council. They are also still seeking approval for a New Jersey Economic Development Authority grant that would partially fund the project. But...

8. ...There's no guarantee the development will pan out at all. The riverside acreage has been vacant since the National Lead Industries paint factory closed in the 1980s, and a previous developer tried and failed to build there.

"This is a long process, and it's an extremely heavy lift," said Mark Toro, the current developer's managing partner. "... It is in no way assured."

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