The Willingboro Township Planning Board has approved a subdivision of 129 for-sale townhouses on 12.4 acres at 4284 Route 130, clearing the way for new housing on land that spent decades as the printing and administrative headquarters of the Burlington County Times. The project developer, Willingboro Townhomes AMS Dev LLC, received preliminary and final major subdivision and site plan approvals for the property, which sits along one of South Jersey's busiest and most dangerous highway corridors.
The planning board approved the 4284 Route 130 plan on August 10, and the township memorialized that decision with a resolution on September 14, according to a report from Jersey Digs. Willingboro Townhomes AMS Dev LLC is owned by AMS Development LLC and Michael Mitnick and is based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The township had already executed a redevelopment plan for the property in July.
From Newsprint to New Construction
The Burlington County Times was founded in 1958, according to the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. It set up its first Route 130 building by 1960. Before the newspaper plant went up, the land was farmland. Printing operations at the plant later ceased, and the newspaper headquarters building was demolished ahead of the current redevelopment. The property is currently owned by Levittown Times Corp. of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, per the same Jersey Digs account.
The approved plan calls for 18 three-story buildings with garages and two two-story buildings designed for handicap access, all situated on 61-foot lots. Seven of the townhomes will be deed-restricted affordable units, while the rest will sell at market rates. Every unit will have three bedrooms, and the site will include 316 total surface, garage, and driveway parking spaces. The developer also plans to replace removed trees with 170 new trees, a figure that exceeds the township's tree-replacement requirement, the report notes.
Part of a Larger 16-Acre Plan
The 129-townhome project is only the second phase of a larger plan for the property. According to Willingboro Township's June 2025 Housing Element and Fair Share Plan, the townhomes occupy the rear 12.65 acres of a larger 16-acre parcel, while the front 3.56 acres along Route 130 are designated for a separate 60-unit, 100% affordable rental community. That two-part structure reflects the township's effort to satisfy New Jersey's Fourth Round affordable housing obligations, which run from 2025 through 2035 under Assembly Bill 4 and Senate Bill 50, legislation Governor Phil Murphy signed into law in March 2024, as detailed by Day Pitney LLP.
Municipalities across New Jersey faced a January 31, 2025 deadline to adopt fair share housing resolutions and a March 2026 deadline to finalize implementing zoning and housing plans, according to a filing reviewed by Cranbury Township. That statewide timeline helps explain why Willingboro moved to finalize its redevelopment resolution and site plan approvals for 4284 Route 130 this year. The state mandate itself has also survived a legal challenge: in February 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court denied an emergency application from a coalition of New Jersey municipalities seeking to block implementation of the 2024 affordable housing law, according to a statement from the Fair Share Housing Center reported by the Seton Hall Law eRepository.
Adding a Rare Housing Type to a Levittown Suburb
Willingboro was transformed from farmland into a master-planned suburb by Levitt & Sons beginning in 1958. That history includes a landmark civil rights case: a 1958 lawsuit brought by Black Army officer W.R. James led to a New Jersey Supreme Court decision desegregating the community, according to Willingboro Township's own Master Plan. The township's Master Plan also shows that, as of 2022, Willingboro contained 10,994 single-family homes and only 763 townhouses, meaning the addition of 129 new townhomes represents a significant expansion of a relatively rare local housing type.
U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-Year estimates for 2024 put Willingboro's total housing stock at 11,314 units, consisting of 10,619 occupied units and 695 vacant ones, giving a sense of scale for how the new development fits into the broader local market.
Traffic Projections Along a High-Crash Corridor
Traffic engineering firm Shropshire Associates LLC, based in Atco, projected the development would generate 15 inbound and 45 outbound trips during the morning peak hour, and 38 inbound and 32 outbound trips during the evening peak hour. Those numbers matter on a stretch of Route 130 that has drawn growing safety scrutiny. Between 2021 and 2025, Burlington County recorded 54,414 traffic collisions and 203 traffic fatalities. Burlington County is using federal Safe Streets for All grant funding to develop a comprehensive safety plan, as Hoodline has previously reported.
The 129 townhomes at 4284 Route 130 are expected to add new residents, driveways, and daily commutes to that same corridor even as county and state officials work to reduce crashes along it. For a township still composed overwhelmingly of single-family homes, the project marks one of the more significant residential shifts in recent memory, built atop a site that traces back through newsprint and, before that, open farmland.
