RT600 Residential Tower at The Park, 350 Connell Drive, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey

RT600 is the second apartment tower Connell has put on its own former office campus, and it topped out Oct. 28, 2026. The 149-unit building at 350 Connell Drive is part of The Park, the 185-acre Berkeley Heights, N.J., property that The Connell Company is reworking in a $500 million redevelopment. SOCO Construction is managing the building, Minno & Wasko Architects and Planners designed it with David M. Sullivan Inc., and GS Ferguson is the owner’s representative.

It went from groundbreaking in October 2025 to topping out in about a year. Connell is targeting a fall 2027 opening.

Project Scope

RT600 follows RT500, the 179-unit, 11-story first tower that topped out in mid-2025 and started welcoming residents this fall. Together the two Round Table Residences buildings add 328 rentals to what used to be Connell Corporate Park.

The new tower carries the same design language: floor-to-ceiling windows, quartz counters and wood-plank floors. Amenities include an outdoor pool and lounge deck, an entertainment lounge, a game room with a pool table, coworking space and a fitness center. Residents also get the hospitality services Connell already runs across the campus.

Both towers sit along District Drive, a new walkable main street that Connell is lining with about 160,000 square feet of restaurants, entertainment and wellness tenants. Café Exchange, attached to the RT500 lobby, opens Nov. 15. SOCO has the RT600 contract plus the north side of District Drive, including RT500 and the surrounding retail.

The rest of the campus is already in place: a 176-room Embassy Suites, a 112,000-square-foot Life Time club and more than 1.5 million square feet of office that Connell markets as a “work resort.”

Why It Matters

Suburban New Jersey has a lot of aging corporate campuses and not much demand for more office. Connell’s answer is to keep the offices that still lease, then add housing and a main street so the campus works after 5 p.m. It’s a long-term owner betting that residents make the offices easier to lease, and the offices make the apartments easier to rent.

That approach is easier for a privately held company that owns its campus than for a fund on a five-year hold. Connell doesn’t need to sell anything to make the numbers work. It can phase housing as the market absorbs it, which is exactly what it’s doing: RT500 leased up first, and RT600 follows two years later.

If District Drive fills, The Park becomes a template for the dozens of single-use office parks along the I-78 and I-287 corridors that are looking for a second life.

Project Team & Details